Accountability for the sentencing decision process - Towards a new understanding

Sentencing and Society: International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 399-428

  Tata, Cyrus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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