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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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Book category Books in English Law Jurisprudence & general issues Jurisprudence & philosophy of law

• Full title: Uses of Discretion
• Author: Keith Hawkins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444
• EAN: 9780198259503
• ISBN: 0198259506
• ID: 04864834
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 602 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. February 1995

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