Introduction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-28

  Gelsthorpe, Loraine ^a   Padfield, Nicola ^b  

^a PEMBROKE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843924470     Document Type: Chapter

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