Data Envelopment Analysis to Analyze the Administration of Justice

México DF

Workshop; Fifth international workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Management and Decision Support ? EUREKA 2015.; 2015

Eureka International networks, the Mexican Society of Operations Research, and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

In this paper we use a non parametric model to evaluate the performance of the justice in the provincial jurisdictions of Argentina. In order to obtain a ranking of the analyzed units, we apply the model DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) proposed by Anderson and Petersen (1993). We consider as analysis dimensions: the labor considered through the number of judges, judicial officials and employees; the rate of resolution of admitted cases -as a direct measure of performance-, and the population of each jurisdiction -as an indirect indicator of the potential demand for the services of justice-. An efficiency ranking was obtained from the results DEA. The information offered to the linear models through the slacks and dual variables allowed us to identify units that present the best practices (benchmarking), define the goals that the units with a low performance should aim to achieve in order to improve its performance.