Unprincipled sentencing? The policy approach to dangerous sex offenders

Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy Under New Labour

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 51-79

  Matravers, Amanda ^a   Hughes, Gareth V ^a  

^a Institute of Criminology   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315065588     Document Type: Chapter

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