Canadian prisons

Comparing Prison Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-97

  Gaucher, Bob ^a   Lowman, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315078458-11     Document Type: Chapter

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