The social origins of plea bargaining: Conflict and the law in the process of state formation, 1830-1860

Law and Society Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 161-243

  Vogel, Mary E ^a  

^a WOLFSON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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