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Weight in discretionary decision-making

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 1999
House of Lords authority in Tesco v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] 1 WLR 759 has reinforced the well-established principle that judicial review will distinguish between relevant and irrelevant considerations pertaining to the exercise of a power, and leave the weighing of the relevant ones to the decision maker. It has also problematized
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Management Changes and Discretionary Accounting Decisions

Journal of Accounting Research, 1973
A number of papers have appeared in recent years which describe empirical investigations of changes in accounting methods.1 Explanations have been offered regarding the motivations for accounting changes, such as the desire to smooth periodic income, to create ad hoc fluctuations in income, to maximize or minimize reported income and so on. In addition
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Discretionary Decision Making by Probation and Parole Officers

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 2009
This study examines the predictors of discretionary decisions made by probation and parole officers (PPOs) when they face clients who commit technical rule violations during community supervision. Although prior studies of discretionary decisions in criminal justice systems typically focus on legal predictors of discretion (i.e., offense- and offender-
John J. Kerbs, Mark Jones, Jennifer M. Jolley   +2 more
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Discretionary Methodological Decisions in Applied Research

Sociological Methods & Research, 1977
The process of completing any piece of empirical research requires that a large number of methodological decisions be made at each step in the undertaking. Some of these decisions are very clearly prescribed by conventional practice, while others allow for wide discretion.
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McCleskey and the Discretionary Death Decision

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
While reflecting on his fifteen-year tenure as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Lewis Powell stated that, if given the chance, he would change his vote in only one of the hundreds of cases decided during his time on the Court.
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Discretionary Accounting Decisions and Income Normalization

Journal of Accounting Research, 1970
The purpose of this paper is to report on another study aimed at determining whether the motive of income smoothing or income normalization can explain management's selection of accounting alternatives.1 Like Dascher and Malcom (see pages 253-59 in this issue), I designed the study to avoid some of the methodological problems discussed by Copeland.2 In
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Self-serving behavior in managers' discretionary information disclosure decisions

Journal of Accounting and Economics, 1996
Abstract Research has shown that managers display self-serving behavior in a variety of discretionary information production decisions. We test whether such behavior is also manifest in discretionary information disclosure decisions — in particular, in the common stock return performance comparisons now required in corporate proxy statements. We find
Wilbur G. Lewellen, Taewoo Park, Byung T. Ro   +2 more
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JUSTICE, MERCY, AND EQUALITY IN DISCRETIONARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING

Journal of Law and Religion, 2020
AbstractThis essay examines whether, in exercising their discretion, criminal justice officials should do justice, grant mercy, and treat alleged or convicted offenders equally. Although it endorses doing justice, the essay maintains that officials should almost never reduce a just punishment simply to be merciful. Public officials are fiduciaries, and
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JUVENILE COURT INTAKE An Analysis of Discretionary Decision‐Making

Criminology, 1975
Abstract An increasing amount of pressure has been directed toward juvenile court operations, much of which has focused on the hypothesized abuse of the broad discretionary decision‐making power that has traditionally been vested in the court. In this paper, we attempt to examine the extent to which factors not directly associated with the nature of ...
CHARLES W. THOMAS, CHRISTOPHER M. SIEVERDES   +1 more
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