The Uses of Discretion

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-02-02
Mått:140 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:563 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Antal sidor:444
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198259503

Utforska kategorier

Juridik: metod och teori inom Juridik
Komparativ rätt inom Juridik

Recensioner i media

this book is now the standard for inquiry on discretion and the law. No legal scholar will be able to ignore its challenge to the conventional wisdom, nor will any social scientist want to begin research on the subject without it

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Issues in the use of discretion: the use of legal discretion - perspectives from law and social science; discretion and rules - a lawyer's view; discretionary decision making - a jurisprudential view. Part 2 Social processes in the use of legal discretion: the myth of discretion; social limits to discretion - an organizational perspective; discretion in a behavioural perspective - the case of a public housing eviction board; organizational horizons and complaint filing; big bang decisions - notes on a naturalistic approach. Part 3 Thinking about the uses of discretion: administrative justice - discretion and procedure in social security decision making; discretion - power, quiescence and trust; the jurisprudence of discretion - escaping the legal paradigm.