Resisting risk assessment? pre-sentence reports and individualized sentencing in denmark

Punishment and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-347

  Wandall, Rasmus H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

community sanctions; courts; imprisonment; penal sanctions; pre sentence reports; risk; sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954937158     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474510369446     Document Type: Article

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