Risk Management and Judicialization

Abstract

Industrial or public transport accidents are referred to the court of justice and often result in high-profile trials. This criminalization process raises the question of the place of repressive justice and the issue of the debate around the judicialization of such serious events. Beyond that, how is this penalization translated? Since the actual conditions for the safety of at-risk activities rely on a set of factors (compliance with norms, rules and procedures, experience of safety culture actors, etc.), how does the judge assess fault and what place is allocated to expertise?.