Chain Reactions in Criminal Justice
Discretion and the Necessity of Interdisciplinary Research
- 75 pages
- English
- PDF
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Chain Reactions in Criminal Justice
Discretion and the Necessity of Interdisciplinary Research
About this book
By drawing from her research on ethnic profiling, crimmigration and counterterrorism legislation, Van der Woude illustrates the key role that discretion has in various criminal justice matters, as well as emphasizing the need to view and research discretion as an interdisciplinary concept. Whereas discretion is considered necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of the criminal justice system, it is more often seen as a problem for legal and public policy due to its potential for injustice or for social advancement. For a concept this central to the criminal justice system, it is interesting to see that research into discretion and discretionary decision-making is somewhat limited, or at least isolated in a disciplinary sense. Legal scholars have mostly been concerned with clarifying the concept itself, and exploring its relationship with rules and the extent to which rules sanction discretionary behavior. The interest of many social scientists, on the other hand, has been in analyzing the law in action so as to further the understanding of how the words of the law may - or may not - be translated into legal action. By defining discretion as decision-making they accentuate different aspects of discretion, making it difficult to combine both strands of literature. This publication, however, provides the reader to gain a full oversight and deeper understanding of the effects that discretion has on the various levels - and the interplay between these levels - of the criminal justice chain. This publication will be of interest to academics and students interested in the study of the law in society. This book is an extended version of a lecture that the author gave on the occasion of accepting the Ada and Paul Cornil Prize March 2015. [Subject: Criminal Law]
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- 1. Discretion as an interdisciplinaryconcept
- 2. Unforeseen openings in the iron cage of actuarial justice and “exceptional” control
- 3. Ethnic profiling as a means to intentionally undermine justice?
- 4. Bringing it all together and looking ahead
- 5. Some final words of thanks
- References
- About the Ada & Paul Cornil Prize
- About the author