Decisions to Imprison

Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law
Neuauflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7157-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

Reihe: New Advances in Crime and Social Harm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wandall, Mr. Rasmus H.

Wandall, Rasmus H.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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.