Research Catalog

Title

Exercising discretion : decision making in the criminal justice system and beyond / edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield.

Publication

Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gelsthorpe, Loraine.
• Padfield, Nicola.

Description

xii, 228 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain > Decision making
• Discretion
• Administrative discretion > Great Britain
• Judicial discretion > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-219) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nicola Padfield -- Youth justice : discretion in pre-court decision-making / Vicky Kemp and Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Judicial discretion in sentencing / David Thomas -- Prison officers and the use of discretion / Alison Liebling and David Price -- Discretion and the release of life sentence prisoners / Nicola Padfield and Alison Liebling, with Helen Arnold -- Discretion in access to forensic psychiatric units / Adrian Grounds, Marie Howes and Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Discretion and the release of mentally disordered offenders / Katy Holloway and Adrian Grounds -- Decisions to detain asylum seekers -- routine duty or individual choice? / Leanne Weber -- Order, rationality and silence : some reflections on criminal justice decision-making / Keith Hawkins.

Call Number

JFE 03-14334

ISBN

1903240999

OCLC

50433316

Title

Exercising discretion : decision making in the criminal justice system and beyond / edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield.

Imprint

Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-219) and index.

Added Author

Gelsthorpe, Loraine.

Padfield, Nicola.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-14334