Assisting and advising the sentencing decision process : the pursuit of 'quality' in pre-sentence reports

Pre-sentence reports are an increasingly prevalent feature of the sentencing process. Yet, although judges have been surveyed about their general views, we know relatively little about how such reports are read and interpreted by judges considering sentence in specific cases, and, in particular, how...

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Main Author: Burns, Nicola (Author)
Contributors: Tata, Cyrus ; McNeill, Fergus ; Hutton, Neil ; Halliday, Simon
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2008
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2008
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