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Yates, Shaun S. and Lundy, Craig (2024) A revised framework for efficiency reform research: reflections from the lower criminal court literature of England and Wales. Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze (Gdańsk Legal Studies). ISSN 1734-5669 (In Press)
This article presents a theoretical framework to aid researchers in navigating the efficiency-oriented criminal justice reform literature. The current article centres on the influential English and Welsh lower criminal court efficiency reform-oriented reports of Le Vay (1989), Auld (2001) and Leveson (2015). In doing so, this work demonstrates that, historically, the literature has provided accounts of efficiency that have often been ambiguous and conflictual. As a result, it is often difficult to understand what efficiency advocates are advocating for and what efficiency critics are critical of. In view of these influential reports and other more contemporary supplementary works, this article critically discusses the theoretical contributions of Chase (1938), Packer (1968) and MacDonald (2008). The result is that the present work provides readers with a revised typological research framework for navigating the often-confusing efficiency-oriented criminal justice literature. The framework organises efficiency
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