Sentencing Hearings in English Crown Courts
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English Juvenile Courts
some extent, but it is impossible to believe that they can account for such wide variations as these. They can only be taken as indicating a regrettable lack of any common standard. If the majority of courts arc right in concluding that at least half the offenders should be put on probation, then the courts that make as little use of it as some of those just mentioned must be falling below the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Court Administration
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2156-7964
DOI: 10.18352/ijca.131