'Just good friends': Managing the clash of discourses in police interviews with paedophiles

The Language of Sexual Crime

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 42-62

  Benneworth, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230592780     Document Type: Chapter

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