The Uses of Discretion

Discretion is a pervasive phenomenon in legal systems. It is of concern to lawyers because it can be a force for advancing the broad purposes of law and subverting them. For social scientists this phenomenon is an important form of decision-making behavior, one in which legal rules are merely one force in a field of pressures and constraints that drive certain courses of action or inaction. This book presents a variety of analyses of legal discretion by lawyers and social scientists who have made discretion and its uses a central part of their scholarly concerns.


Author: Keith Hawkins
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 03/23/1995
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198259503

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