Gendered Justice in China: Victim–Offender Mediation as the “Different Voice” of Female Judges

Attempts to uncover the “different voice” of female judges through testing the statistical significance of judges’ gender in decision making have offered inconsistent results. Meanwhile, a proliferation of research suggests that such “voice” might be detected through qualitative analysis. Existing f...

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Autor principal: Wei, Shuai (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Año: 2021, Volumen: 65, Número: 4, Páginas: 346-372
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