Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry

by Kenneth Culp Davis

Overview

Research about justice for individual parties has been primarily concerned with the content of rules and principles and has insufficiently tried to penetrate discretionary justice as meted out by police, prosecutors, and other administrators. In this groundbreaking study Kenneth Culp Davis dispels the prevailing notion that discretionary justice is too elusive for scholarly investigation.

Davis advances proposals for badly needed reforms in our system of discretionary justice and lays the groundwork for further empirical and philosophical studies. "Our jurisprudence of statutes and of judge-made law," says Davis, "is overdeveloped; our jurisprudence of administrative justice, of police justice, of prosecutor justice- of discretionary justice is under-developed. We need a new jurisprudence that will encompass all of justice, not just the easy half of it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807156551
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1969
Series:	Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Kenneth Culp Davis was Professor of Law at West Virginia University (1935 to 1939), University of Texas at Austin (1940 to 1948), Harvard University
(1948 to 1950), University of Minnesota (1950 to 1960), University of Chicago (1961 to 1976), and University of San Diego (1976 to 1994).