The mostly unintended effects of mandatory penalties: Two centuries of consistent findings

Crime and Justice

Volumn 38, Issue , 2009, Pages 65-114

  Tonry, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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