Introduction / Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nicola Padfield
Youth justice : discretion in pre-court decision-making / Vicky Kemp and Loraine Gelsthorpe
Judicial discretion in sentencing / David Thomas
Prison officers and the use of discretion / Alison Liebling and David Price
Discretion and the release of life sentence prisoners / Nicola Padfield and Alison Liebling, with Helen Arnold
Discretion in access to forensic psychiatric units / Adrian Grounds, Marie Howes and Loraine Gelsthorpe
Discretion and the release of mentally disordered offenders / Katy Holloway and Adrian Grounds
Decisions to detain asylum seekers
routine duty or individual choice? /
Order, rationality and silence : some reflections on criminal justice decision-making / Keith Hawkins.