Victim Satisfaction with Criminal Justice: A Systematic Review

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-147

  Laxminarayan, Malini ^a   Bosmans, Mark ^a   Porter, Robert ^b   Sosa, Lorena ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

criminal justice; quality of the outcome; quality of the procedure; systematic review; victim satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877892183     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2012.763198     Document Type: Article

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