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Chain reactions in criminal justice : discretion and the necessity of interdisciplinary research / by Professor Maartje van der Woude.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woude, Maartje van der, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (75 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hague, Netherlands : Eleven International Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- 1. Discretion as an interdisciplinaryconcept
- Defining discretion in matters of criminal justice
- Studying discretion legally and empirically
- A chain of discretion throughout the criminal justicesystem
- 2. Unforeseen openings in the iron cage of actuarial justice and "exceptional" control
- Actuarialism, exceptionalism and control influencing legislative choices
- Perhaps not so stuck in an iron cage: The role of human agency in a culture of control
- Preliminary conclusion I
- 3. Ethnic profiling as a means to intentionally undermine justice?
- Ethnic profiling in the Netherlands?
- Measuring police decision-making through perceptions and outcomes
- Preliminary conclusion II
- 4. Bringing it all together and looking ahead
- Looking ahead: Getting to the core of crimmigration
- Understanding EU internal border policing through the lens of discretion
- 5. Some final words of thanks
- References
- About the Ada &
- Paul Cornil Prize
- About the author.
- Notes:
- "A shorter version of this text was presented as a lecture held on the occasion of accepting the Ada and Paul Cornil Prize at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on March 12, 2015" -- title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 94-6274-625-7
- 9789462746251
- OCLC:
- 967110633
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