Law as Last Resort : Prosecution Decision-Making in a Regulatory Agency

ISBN-13: 9780199243884 / Angielski

Keith Hawkins

Opis

In almost all legal disputing, formalities are employed as a last resort. This book presents a new theory of decision-making, exploring the conditions under which prosecution is employed to handle occupational health and safety problems. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars of law, regulation, socio-legal studies, criminal justice, sociology, and political science.

Recenzje

This is an excellent "interpretive" socio-legal study of the prosecutorial decision-making by the officers in the British Health and Safety Executive ... the book does draw conclusions about how legal officials actually make decisions, and these insights will be of great interest to policy makers.

O autorze

Keith Hawkins is Reader in Law and Society, and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Oriel College, Oxford