The Uses of Discretion (Shelfworn) by Keith Hawkins

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Pages: 431

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 subverting 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, in the form of a set of original essays, a variety of analyses of legal discretion by lawyers and social scientists (drawn from the UK and the US) who have made discretion and its uses a central part of their scholarly concern.