Probation and parole officers and discretionary decision-making: Responses to technical and criminal violations

Federal Probation

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-15

  Jones, Mark ^a   Kerbs, John J ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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