Silo Effect
Definition
The tendency of an agency to optimise its own internal process and metrics without a mandate to track how its output is used, or fails to be used, by the next agency in the chain.
Related terms
- Case Management System
- Software used by a court, prosecutor's office, or police force to record, schedule, and track the status of individual cases from filing...
- Inter-Agency Coordination
- The set of formal and informal arrangements by which police, prosecution, courts, and corrections share information, align timelines, and hand off responsibility...
- Case Attrition
- The cumulative reduction in the number of criminal matters as they pass from offence committed through reporting, recording, charging, and trial to...
- Case Conferencing
- A scheduled meeting between the investigating officer, the prosecutor, and sometimes a court official before a matter is listed for trial, used...
- Criminal Justice Funnel
- The narrowing sequence of stages, from reported offence through investigation, prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing, at each of which a case can be...
- E-Courts
- The Supreme Court e-Committee's project that computerised case filing, cause lists, and case status across district and high courts, and now underpins...
- Interoperability
- The ability of separate agency databases, such as a police records system and a court case-tracking system, to exchange case data in...
- Liaison Prosecutor
- A prosecutor embedded with a police investigation team from an early stage, able to flag evidentiary gaps before a charge sheet is...
Explained in these topics
- Coordination Among Criminal Justice Agencies (UGC-NET Unit II)
- Inter-Agency Coordination in the Criminal Justice SystemThe tendency of an agency to optimise its own internal process and metrics without regard to how its output is used, or fails to be used, by the next agency in...