The Uses of Discretion Paperback / softback
Edited by Keith (Reader in Law and Society, and Fellow and Tutor, Reader in Law and Society, and Fell Hawkins
Part of the Oxford Socio-Legal Studies series
Paperback / softback
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Discretion is a pervasive phenomenon in legal systems.
It is of concern to lawyers because it can be a force for justice or injustice: at once a means of advancing the broad purposes of law and of subventing them.
For social scientists the discretion exercised by legal actors is an important form of decision-making behaviour, in which legal rules are merely one force in a field of pressures and constraints that push towards certain courses of action or inaction.
This book presents a variety of analyses of legal discretion by lawyers and social scientists (drawn from both sides of the Atlantic), who have made discretion and its uses a central part of their scholarly concerns.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:444 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/1995
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- ISBN:9780198259503
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:444 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:02/02/1995
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- ISBN:9780198259503
