Listening to the crime victim: Evaluating victim input at sentencing and parole

Crime and Justice

Volumn 38, Issue , 2009, Pages 347-412

  Roberts, Julian V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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