Social information and its 'usefulness' in the juvenile court : An analysis of magistrates' accounts in organizational context

Studies of social information use have generally adopted an objectivist definition of 'information', treating it as an entity which resides in documents such as social enquiry reports and whose effect can then be measured as the corr7latio~ of inpu~ (information) with output (decision). Co...

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Main Author: Brown, S.
Published: Teesside University 1989
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235250