Should victim impact influence sentences? Understanding the community's justice reasoning

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 661-671

  Hills, Adelma M ^a   Thomson, Donald M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFENDER; PUBLIC OPINION; RESEARCH; SEXUAL CRIME; THEFT; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033507744     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199923)17:5<661::AID-BSL369>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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