Comparing penal cultures: Child-on-child homicide in England and Norway

Crime and Justice

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 591-643

  Green, David A ^a  

^a CHRIST CHURCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35648980989     PISSN: 01923234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/592809     Document Type: Article

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