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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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POLICE SUSPICION AND DISCRETIONARY DECISION MAKING DURING CITIZEN STOPS*

Criminology, 2005
This study examines the influence of racial, demographic and situational variables on types of police suspicion and the ancillary decision to stop and question suspects. Data were drawn from an observational study of police decision making in Savannah, Georgia.
GEOFFREY P. ALPERT, JOHN M. MACDONALD, ROGER G. DUNHAM   +2 more
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Bank Managers' Heterogeneous Decisions on Discretionary Loan Loss Provisions

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2001
This study examines bank managers' three major motivations for discretionary behavior with respect to loan loss provisions: signaling, income smoothing, and capital management. To do so, it utilizes a bank-specific time-series regression approach that captures heterogeneity in the banks' priorities and strategies for alternative motives and compares ...
Gerald J. Lobo, Dong-Hoon Yang
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Building Decision Support Systems in Discretionary Legal Domains

International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2000
The 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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Fuzzy Support Systems for Discretionary Judicial Decision Making

2003
Judicial 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, María del Socorro Téllez-Silva   +1 more
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Discretionary Decision-Making: A Jurisprudential View

1993
Abstract 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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Partiality in Prosecution? Discretionary Prosecutorial Decision Making and Intimate Partner Violence

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2019
In the United States, prosecutors are typically allotted a large amount of discretion when litigating a criminal case. Although some level of discretion is necessary for various reasons (e.g., lack of resources), concerns have arisen in both scholarly and popular discourse that prosecutorial discretion remains generally unchecked.
Jennifer Cox, Lauren T. Meaux, Marissa Stanziani, C. Adam Coffey, Jane Daquin   +4 more
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Modeling of decision-making behavior for discretionary lane-changing execution

2016 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2016
Modeling of decision-making behavior for discretionary lane-changing execution (DLCE) is fundamental to both movement simulation and controlling design of automatic vehicles. The existing gap acceptance models ingored the nonlinearity of drivers' DLCE decision-making behavior. Therefore, this study tries to analyze and simulate the DLCE decision-making
null Jianqiang Nie, null Jian Zhang, Xia Wan, null Wanting Ding, null Bin Ran   +4 more
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A management view: computer security as a discretionary decision

Computers & Security, 1985
Abstract The security manager needs to have an understanding of the management view of information as a resource. There are five understandings necessary if the security manager is to be seen as a part of management rather than as a necessary evil.
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