The Uses of Discretion

ISBN-13: 9780198259503 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 448 str.

Keith Hawkins;Hawkins

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Anyone seeking to refine their understanding of the exercise of discretion, its advantages and disadvantages, and the effect of a discretionary approach as opposed to use of a rule or some intermediate standard, will find this book extremely helpful.