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Decisions to Imprison Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law 1st Edition

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Full Title

Decisions to Imprison Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law 1st Edition

Author(s)

Rasmus H. Wandall

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781317153870, 9780754671572, 9781138276369, 9781409496007, 9780754688327, 9781315576152, 9781317153887, 9781317153863

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.