'Hearing victims of crime': The delivery of impact statements as ritual behaviour in four London trials for murder and manslaughter

Hearing the victim: Adversarial justice, crime victims and the state

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 200-231

  Rock, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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