书目名称 | Decision Making in Criminal Justice | 副标题 | Toward the Rational | 编辑 | Michael R. Gottfredson,Don M. Gottfredson | 视频video | | 概述 | Includes supplementary material: | 丛书名称 | Law, Society and Policy | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The study of decisions in the criminal justice process provides a useful focus for the examination of many fundamental aspects of criminal jus tice. These decisions are not always highly visible. They are made, or dinarily, within wide areas of discretion. The aims of the decisions are not always clear, and, indeed, the principal objectives of these decisions are often the subject of much debate. Usually they are not guided by explicit decision policies. Often the participants are unable to verbalize the basis for the selection of decision alternatives. Adequate information for the decisions is usually unavailable. Rarely can the decisions be demonstrated to be rational. By a rationaldecision we mean "that decision among those possible for the decisionmaker which, in the light of the information available, maximizes the probability of the achievement of the purpose of the decisionmaker in that specific and particular case" (Wilkins, 1974a: 70; also 1969). This definition, which stems from statistical decision theory, points to three fundamental characteristics of decisions. First, it is as sumed that a choice of possible decisions (or, more precisely, of possible alternatives) i | 出版日期 | Book 1988 | 关键词 | Crime; Criminal Justice; Institution; decision theory; election; exercise; information | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9954-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4757-9956-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-9954-5 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988 |
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