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Law as Last Resort: Prosecution Decision-Making in a Regulatory Agency

Keith HawkinsReader in Law and Society, and Fellow and Tutor in Law, Oriel College, University of Oxford

ISBN13: 9780199243891
ISBN: 0199243891
Published: April 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £48.99
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This is a book about the life of the legal system. Its concern is legal decision-making, its focus the handling of prosecution cases in a regulatory agency. In almost all legal disputing formalities are employed as a last resort for a small proportion of cases. Case attrition is a constant feature in the legal system, whether criminal or civil, since extensive pre-trial negotiations search for solutions to problems that avoid the costs, risks, and delays of trial. This book analyzes the attrition of cases by studying decisions made about their creation, handling, disposal, and prosecution.

Exploring these issues asks questions about the public face of law, the meaning of formal processes, and their impact on pre-trial legal manoeuvring. To prosecute is to enforce the law in both a public and a consequential way. In enforcing regulation prosecution visibly takes sides in the fundamental dilemma of regulatory control about how far law should justifiably intervene in business. Using extensive data collected over a fifteen-year period, and with privileged access to the UK Health and Safety Executive, the book presents a multi-level analysis of decisions about prosecution policy and individual cases in a variety of inspectorates.

Subjects:
General Interest
Contents:
Abbreviations
PART I: FORMALITIES
1. Themes, Perspectives, Questions
2. Organizing Ideas
3. Pre-Trial Processes
PART II: SURROUND
4. Decision-Making Environments
PART III: FIELD
5. Formal Structure and Practice
6. Prosecution Policy
7. Symbols and Images
PART IV: FRAME
8. Enforcers' Theories of Compliance and Punishment
9. The Instrumental Frame: Will Prosecution Have an Impact?
10. The Organizational Frame: Prosecuting as Advertising
11. The Symbolic Frame: The Social Construction of Blame
12. The Legal Frame: Can a Case be Made?
PART V: REFLECTION
13. On Prosecution, Legal Decision-Making, and Law
Appendix: Research Methods and Data Sources
References
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects

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