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Author Wandall, Rasmus H.

Title Decisions to imprison : court decision-making inside and outside the law / Rasmus H. Wandall
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 203 pages)
Series Advances in criminology
Advances in criminology.
Contents Introduction -- Inside and outside the law -- The legal framework of decisions to imprison -- Decisions to imprison : a statistical point of view -- Description of the court and of the case-handling -- Organizing courtroom communication -- Decisions to imprison in the courtroom -- Ideologies of imprisonment in the courtroom -- Decisions to imprison inside and outside the law -- Closing perspectives
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-199) and index
Notes English
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Subject Imprisonment -- Denmark
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Denmark
Prison sentences -- Denmark
Judicial process -- Denmark
Courts -- Denmark
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Courts
Imprisonment
Judicial process
Prison sentences
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Denmark
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754688327
0754688321
1317153871
9781317153870
1281208779
9781281208774
9786611208776
6611208771