Mandatory sentences: A conundrum for the new South Africa?

Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 90-109

  van Zyl Smit, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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