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Sentencing as Craftwork and the Binary Epistemologies of the Discretionary Decision Process [PDF]
, 2007 This article contends that it is time to take a critical look at a series of binary categories which have dominated the scholarly and reform epistemologies of the sentencing decision process.
Cyrus Tata
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Factors predicting coroners’ decisions to hold discretionary inquests [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2012 Coroners in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries in the Commonwealth hold inquests into deaths in two situations. Mandatory inquests are held when statutory rules dictate they must be; discretionary inquests are held based on the decisions of individual coroners.
Simon J, Walter +3 more
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Who Is ‘The Child’? Best Interests and Individuality of Children in Discretionary Decision-Making
, 2021 While the substantiation of “best interests” has received much attention, the question of how “the child” is conceptualised to ensure any action taken or decision made is in the particular child’s best interests has been largely neglected. In this paper,
J. Krutzinna
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Discretionary Decisions in Capital Requirements under Solvency II [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 Abstract European insurers are allowed to make discretionary decisions in the calculation of Solvency II capital requirements. These choices include the design of risk models (ranging from a standard formula to a full internal model) and the use of long-term guarantees measures. This article examines the situation of insurers that utilize the
Nicolaus Grochola, Sebastian Schlütter
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Expertise and Discretionary Bonus Decisions [PDF]
Management Science, 2018 We examine the association between managers’ expertise and their discretionary bonus decisions in a hospital setting. We hypothesize that high-expertise managers make decisions that encourage cooperation among their subordinates. However, low-expertise managers cannot do so because their lower levels of knowledge, experience, and domain expertise ...
Margaret A. Abernethy +2 more
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REVIEW OF DISCRETIONARY DECISIONS BY ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS [PDF]
Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2017 The paper concerns reviews conducted by administrative courts of decisions issued by public administration authorities on the basis of their administrative discretion.
Paweł Artymionek
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Algorithm-assisted decision-making in the public sector: framing the issues using administrative law rules governing discretionary power [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2018 This article considers some of the risks and challenges raised by the use of algorithm-assisted decision-making and predictive tools by the public sector.
M. Oswald
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Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020 In this paper, the decision-making model of discretionary lane-changing is established using cumulative prospect theory (CPT). Through analyzing the vehicles’ dynamic running states, safety spacing calculating approaches for discretionary lane-changing ...
Xueqin Long +3 more
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A Learning-Based Discretionary Lane-Change Decision-Making Model With Driving Style Awareness [PDF]
IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems (Print), 2020 Discretionary lane change (DLC) is a basic but complex maneuver in driving, which aims at reaching a faster speed or better driving conditions, e.g., further line of sight or better ride quality. Although modeling DLC decision-making has been studied for
Yifan Zhang +5 more
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Discretionary Decision-Makin in Juvenile Justice [PDF]
Crime & Delinquency, 1976 The social distribution of youths who engage in delinquent behavior is not ,exactly the same as that of youths who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Thus a certain amount of discretion characterizes the decisions made at various points within the system.
W. Barton
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