Pre-sentence reports in England and Wales: Changing discourses of need, risk and quality

Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 471-491

  Gelsthorpe, Loraine ^a   Raynor, Peter ^b   Robinson, Gwen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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