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Housing Code Enforcement as Law in Action *
Author(s) -
ROSS H. LAURENCE
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
law and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1467-9930
pISSN - 0265-8240
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9930.1995.tb00142.x
Subject(s) - enforcement , variety (cybernetics) , action (physics) , code (set theory) , law enforcement , business , law and economics , law , computer science , computer security , political science , programming language , sociology , artificial intelligence , physics , set (abstract data type) , quantum mechanics
This document presents a description and analysis of housing codes and the enterprise of enforcing them. The origin of cases, the roles of complainants, inspectors, supervisors, and others in their processing, as well as the outcomes, are explored. Housing code enforcement produces law in action which, as with other similar enterprises, is simplified and liberal compared with the formal rules, and which contains a variety of formally arbitrary outcomes.