Law as last resort : prosecution decision-making in a regulatory agency

Keith Hawkins

Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2002 · 174 citations · 0 references

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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