Criminal justice statistics and sexual offences (England and Wales) 1918-1970

This dataset relates to quantitative information about sexual offences, their reporting and prosecution, which has been abstracted from the Annual Criminal Justice Statistics for England and Wales 1918-1970 (Command Papers series). The dataset was created as part of the ESRC-funded project ES/M00975...

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Main Author: Jackson, Louise A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Research Data
Language:English
Published: Colchester UK Data Service 2015
In:Year: 2015
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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