The phenomenon of victim-offender overlap: A study of offences against households

Hearing the victim: Adversarial justice, crime victims and the state

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 104-140

  Bottoms, Anthony ^a   Costello, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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