The Uses of Discretion

By Keith Hawkins

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198259506
• ISBN13: 9780198259503
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"