The science of sentencing: Measurement theory and von Hirsch's new scales of justice

Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 329-359

  Davis, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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