Even police and judges resist bureaucratizing offenders through norms of appropriate sanction

Evidence

Even in the roles of police officers and judges, where the concepts of client advocacy and representation might appear remote, we can see norms of appropriate application of sanctions that in these occupations are the primary ingredients of resistance to bureaucratic treatment of offenders. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1374

Categorization

• QUESTION: If norms of appropriate sanction resist routinization, do they ever encode stereotype instead? Worth chasing against the reader’s speed-differential hypothesis.