Ricerc@Sapienza

In recent years, the Italian judicial system has been at the center of both the political debate and policy
actions aiming at modifying the territorial structure and the organization of the courts as well as the procedural
processes. The measures adopted concerned the reorganization of the magistrates career and the
reform of judicial districts.
Despite the several reforms, the Italian judicial system does not reach yet the European standards,
principally for the so called magistrate-duration procedures binomial, according to which the number of
magistrates is above the European average level and the time of legal trials is too long compared with most
European countries. Hence, performance and efficiency are worthy of attention in this field.
Here, the territorial displacement of efficiency for the Italian judicial districts is studied using a DEA
approach followed by a spatial analysis consisting in a PCA for macro-area where the problem of long trials
is taken into account. We assess on the geographical characterization of both productivity and expenses of
the judicial sector and provide indications in order to improve efficiency according to the dimensions of the
courts.