Youth justice: Discretion in pre-court decision-making

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 29-49

  Kemp, Vicky ^a   Gelsthorpe, Loraine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PEMBROKE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843924470     Document Type: Chapter

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