Erring on the Side of Safety: Risk Assessment, Expert Knowledge, and the Criminal Court

Seeking Security: Pre-Empting the Commission of Criminal Harms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 219-241

  Zedner, Lucia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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