Gang rape in Sydney: Crime, the media, politics, race and sentencing

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 344-361

  Warner, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 85047692570     PISSN: 00048658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/acri.37.3.344     Document Type: Review

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