Denying responsibility: Sentencers' accounts of their decisions to imprison

British Journal of Criminology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 803-821

  Tombs, Jacqueline ^a   Jagger, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750193978     PISSN: 00070955     EISSN: 14643529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azl002     Document Type: Article

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