Case construction and the goals of criminal process
McConville, Sanders and Leng (1991) have argued that the police play the dominant role in a process that constructs the suspect population and produces prosecution cases. Whereas the public rhetoric of the law proclaims ideals of fairness and equality, the process of case construction is driven by t...
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Language: | English |
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1997
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 1997, Volume: 37, Issue: 3, Pages: 319-346 |
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Availability in Tübingen: | Present in Tübingen. IFK: In: Z 7 |
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