Decisions to imprison
Subtitle: court decision-making inside and outside the law
By: Rasmus H. Wandall.
Series: Advances in criminology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780754671572
Subjects: Imprisonment -- Denmark; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Denmark; Prison sentences -- Denmark; Judicial process -- Denmark; Courts -- Denmark
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Inside and outside the law; title: The legal framework of decisions to imprison; title: Decisions to imprison : a statistical point of view; title: Description of the court and of the case-handling; title: Organizing courtroom communication; title: Decisions to imprison in the courtroom; title: Ideologies of imprisonment in the courtroom; title: Decisions to imprison inside and outside the law; title: Closing perspectives.