Decisions to Imprison

Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law

Rasmus H. Wandall (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27636-9 (ISBN)

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This book presents empirical analyses of the normative and ideological structures of courts' decisions to imprison in the daily handling of criminal cases. It explores the ways in which the courtroom decision-making process upholds decisions as legally valid, whilst at the same time also allows decision-making to reflect wider and more contextual factors.

Rasmus Wandall uses quantitative and qualitative methods from studies carried out in Denmark, to address the formal and informal norms and ideologies that are used to generate decisions to imprison. Focusing on the operations of the courtroom participants, his work investigates how court decision-making is organized to allow the sentencing procedure to be open to more than its formal legal framework, while at the same time keeping the sentencing within the boundaries of law and legal validity. The author uses the theory of law's operational closure, developed by Niklas Luhmann. The theory provides an advantageous point of departure to capture the close and subtle interactions between law's need for validity and for contextual openness in every legal operation - including court decision-making.

Rasmus H. Wandall is Assistant Research Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also a Criminal Justice Research Fellow at New York University, School of Law.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Inside and Outside the Law; Chapter 3 The Legal Framework of Decisions to Imprison; Chapter 4 Decisions to Imprison: A Statistical Point of View; Chapter 5 Description of Court and Case-handling; Chapter 6 Organizing Courtroom Communication; Chapter 7 Decisions to Imprison in the Courtroom; Chapter 8 Ideologies of Imprisonment in the Courtroom; Chapter 9 Decisions to Imprison Inside and Outside the Law; Chapter 10 Closing Perspectives;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-27636-7 / 1138276367
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27636-9 / 9781138276369
Zustand	Neuware