“…Only two articles explicitly relate NPM to the work of frontline judges based on an SLB approach (Biland & Steinmetz, 2017; Dallara & Lacchei, 2021). Although, overall, only five articles directly refer to the SLB framework (e.g., Cowan & Hitchings, 2007; Hersant, 2017), some articles refer to similar notions, such as the discretion of judges (e.g., Beyens & Scheirs, 2010; Eells & Showalter, 1994) or their routinization of some tasks (e.g., Mouhanna & Bastard, 2010). As far as courts are concerned, 20 articles deal with the judicial system of a state as a whole, while 10 focus on criminal courts.…”