| The Uses of Discretion Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hawkins, Keith (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198259506 ISBN-13: 9780198259503 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence |
| Dewey: 347.012 |
| LCCN: 92028309 |
| Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.24 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |