Exercising discretion: decision making in the criminal justice system and beyond

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? /

Leanne Weber

Order, rationality and silence : some reflections on criminal justice decision-making / Keith Hawkins.