Criminal sentencing and the court probation office: The myth of individualized justice revisited

Justice System Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-273

  Kingsnorth, Rodney ^a   Cummings, Debra ^a   Lopez, John ^a   Wentworth, Jennifer ^a  

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