The Uses of discretion
By: edited by Keith Hawkins
Contributors: Hawkins, Keith.
Series: Oxford socio-legal studies
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Administrative discretion; Judicial discretion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-416) and indexes
Table of contents: value: 1. The use of legal discretion: perspectives from law and social science / Keith Hawkins.; value: 2. Discretion and rules: a lawyer's view / Carl F. Schneider.; value: 3. Discretionary decision-making: a jurisprudential view / John Bell.; value: 4. The myth of discretion / M.P. Baumgartner.; value: 5. Social limits to discretion: an organizational perspective / Martha Feldman.; value: 6. Discretion in a behavioral perspective: the case of a public housing eviction board / Richard Lempert.; value: 7. Organizational horizons and complaint-filing / Robert M. Emerson and Blair Paley.; value: 8. "Big bang" decisions: notes on a naturalistic approach / Peter K. Manning.; value: 9. Administrative justice: discretion and procedure in social security decision-making / Roy Sainbury.; value: 10. Discretion: power, quiescence, and trust / Joel Handler.; value: 11. The jurisprudence of discretion: escaping the legal paradigm / Nicola Lacey