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.

Summary

This title 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.

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.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

1903240999

LCCN

^^2004296782

OCLC

• 50433316
• SCSB-10017160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library