Exercising Discretion
Subtitle: Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond
Contributors: Padfield, Nicola
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781843924470
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice
Description: The exercise of discretion in the criminal justice system and related agencies often plays a key part in decisions which are made, but definitions of discretion are not clear, and despite widespread recognition of its importance there is much controversy on its nature and legitimacy. This book seeks to explore the importance of discretion to an understanding of the nature of the 'making of justice' in theory and practice, taking as its starting point the wide discretionary powers wielded by many of the key players in the criminal justice and related systems. It focuses on the core elements and.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Exercising Discretion; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Youth Justice: discretion in pre-court decision-making; 3 Judicial discretion in sentencing; 4 Prison officers and the use of discretion; 5 Discretion and the release of life sentence prisoners; 6 Discretion in access to forensic psychiatric units; 7 Discretion and the release of mentally disordered offenders; 8 Decisions to detain asylum seekers; title: routine, duty or individual choice?; 9 Order, rationality and silence: some reflections on criminal justice decision-making; Index.