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Discretionary Methodological Decisions in Applied Research
Sociological Methods & Research, 1977The 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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Fuzzy Support Systems for Discretionary Judicial Decision Making
2003Judicial decision making is a very complex decision process because of the variability, flexibility and discretion that characterize it and the numerous factors affecting the results. To aid sentencing decision making, we propose an Intelligent Decision Making Support System based on case based reasoning and fuzzy logic. As an example, in this paper we
Felipe Lara-Rosano +1 more
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The effect of earnings characteristics on firms' discretionary disclosure decisions
International Journal of Accounting and Finance, 2010This study examines whether firms expand accounting disclosures in response to perceived market undervaluation. Using a signalling theory framework, this paper predicts that managers will use disclosures to align the market's expectations about future earnings performance with their own.
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A Problem of Sequential Entry and Exit Decisions Combined with Discretionary Stopping
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2003Summary: We consider a stochastic control problem that has emerged in the economics literature as an investment model under uncertainty. This problem combines features of both stochastic impulse control and optimal stopping. The aim is to discover the form of the optimal strategy. It turns out that this has a priori rather unexpected features.
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JUSTICE, MERCY, AND EQUALITY IN DISCRETIONARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE DECISION MAKING
Journal of Law and Religion, 2020AbstractThis 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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Discretionary Decision-Making: A Jurisprudential View
1993Abstract As Denis Galligan (1986a:l) has noted, discretion has not been a central topic of jurisprudential writing, though it has been a major focus of interest for legal sociology. While legal theory in the area of administrative law has paid significant attention to the issue of analysing discretion, it has tended to be with heavy ...
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JUVENILE COURT INTAKE An Analysis of Discretionary Decision‐Making
Criminology, 1975Abstract 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 +1 more
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Building Decision Support Systems in Discretionary Legal Domains
International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2000The construction of intelligent legal decision support systems in discretionary domains will enhance consistent decision-making leading to increased confidence in the justice system and provide support for alternative dispute resolution. To build such intelligent decision support systems, we classify discretionary legal domains into four (not ...
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Discretionary Subjects: Decision and Participation in William Gibson’s Fiction
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2010This comparison of protagonists in William Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” and Pattern Recognition tests whether plot-driven fiction can produce only one type of literary subjectivity, or whether the subject can be successfully reimagined without abandoning the familiar narrative form.
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Theorising the evidence on discretionary decision making: alternative perspectives
Evidence & Policy, 2005English In recent years, a diversity of critical paradigms of evaluation research have been proposed, developed and implemented by both academic and professional evaluators. At the heart of this ‘Kuhnian revolution’ lies a questioning of the ontological, epistemological and methodological premises of quasi-experimental designs, and a commitment to ...
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