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The Uses of Discretion

The Uses of Discretion

Paperback

Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies

General Law

ISBN10: 0198259506
ISBN13: 9780198259503
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Mar 23 1995
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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