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The Uses of Discretion, Paperback / softback Book

The Uses of Discretion Paperback / softback

Edited by Keith (Reader in Law and Society, and Fellow and Tutor, Reader in Law and Society, and Fell Hawkins

Part of the Oxford Socio-Legal Studies series

Paperback / softback

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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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