El servicio de justicia penal santafesino: Producción de audiencias orales, marco jurídico y organización: el caso de la oficina de gestión judicial de los distritos judiciales N° 1 y 2

Abstract

Observing the modernization of judicial systems from the point of view of the administration leads to obtaining results that are difficult to find in the legal literature. We propose to study the Santa Fe penal system, in which an adversarial process has been implemented, which is characterized by the development of hearings, where the parties perform their role orally and, mainly, the judge makes his decision orally. In order to specify each of the oral hearings, the legal framework created an administrative organization, separate from the jurisdictional one and endowed with specific functions, which help and provide support to the judges in their work. Analyzing the number of resources that are available and the degree of use made of them to hold a certain volume of oral hearings, will allow us to know about the use of the production factors involved in the criminal process, which has as result is the total number of hearings held. In our study on criminal justice in Santa Fe, specifically in the jurisdictions of the Santa Fe and Rosario headquarters, for the period 2014 to 2018, we have found quantitative evidence of a decrease in average productivity with greater resource allocation, despite growing production total audiences. In other words, the increase in the number of personnel or the construction of a greater number of courtrooms, although they positively affect total production, shows a decrease in their average performance.