Prison officers and the use of discretion

Exercising Discretion: Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-96

  Liebling, Alison ^a   Price, David ^a  

^a Trinity Hall ^*

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843924470     Document Type: Chapter

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