Social Reporting in the Italian Justice System: Milan Court Experience

Abstract

This research aims to analyse social reporting in Italian Court Offices, focusing in particular on the latest Milan Court social report and to underline the problems encountered by operators when applying social reporting methodologies to complex organisations. The results are not very satisfactory: the deficiencies identified do not allow to overcome the three major issues that voluntary reporting entails. In summary, the work shows how difficult is to adopt social reporting procedures within complex institutions and the need to elaborate new methodologies. Social reporting can have a fundamental role in regenerating Public Value, therefore the study is far from being over because of the importance to check in the future the progress (or regress) of Judicial Offices along this path and to consider the need to create a specific model for these public entities.

The Accountability in the Justice System: Have Times Really Changed? Reflections From an Italian Social Reporting Experience

“…After this first experience, the result of the "OpenGiustizia Project" that was funded by the European Union as part of a wider national plan for the dissemination of best practices in the judicial offices, six years of silence followed in which no reports were published. This, while certainly confirms the tendencies of abandonment and disconnection typical of social reporting in the Italian public administrations (Ricci & Fusco, 2016), on the other hand enhances the decision to resume the good practice of drawing up a social and sustainability report, in the lack of a specific funded project.…”

“…He was subsequently Head of Cabinet Office of the Justice Secretary during the Renzi Government (from March 2014 to July 2017) before being appointed to the current post by the High Council of the Judiciary. He has had therefore the opportunity to personally follow the planning and launch of the so called "OpenGiustizia project" (Ricci & Fusco, 2016) regarding the implementation of best practices in Italian judicial Offices during his secondment at the Ministry of Justice. A path of responsibility that starts from afar would seem to emerge.…”

The experience of social reporting in Italian judicial offices. The laboratory of the public prosecutor’s office in Naples

“…This study can be defined as the opening of the justice black box (Latour, 1987, p. 4). It is a case study (Yin, 1994) about the process of building the social report of one of the most important judicial offices in Italy: the Public Prosecutor's Office in Naples, comparable in terms of importance only to similar Offices in Milan (Ricci and Fusco, 2016) and Rome in the context of the Italian judiciary.…”

“…In line with EU and international efforts, a first organizational innovation and optimization project was developed in Italy with regards to the Court and the Public Prosecutor's Office in Naples. This project, called OpenGiustizia , was funded by the European Union with the aim of making justice more accessible to citizens (Ricci and Fusco, 2016).…”

Sustainability, Popular and Integrated Reporting in the Public Sector: A Fad and Fashion Perspective

“…Given the lack of legal obligations for public organizations to adopt these reporting tools, the uptake has been varied and changing, raising questions about the existence of managerial fashions behind [9,10]. Recently, it has been argued that future research should direct its attention to the relationships and differences between SR and other non-financial types of reporting, such as <IR> [11].…”