Mandatory minimum penalties: Evidence-based consequences and recommendations for policy and legal reform

Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 155-169

  Albonetti, Celesta A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315737874-20     Document Type: Chapter

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