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Decisions to Imprison: Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law (Advances in Criminology) - Softcover

Wandall, Rasmus H.

 
9781138276369: Decisions to Imprison: Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law (Advances in Criminology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138276367 ISBN 13: 9781138276369
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138276367
ISBN 13 
9781138276369
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
218