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The Uses of Discretion

Keith Hawkins · ISBN 9780198259503
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Keith Hawkins
Published 2nd February 1995
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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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