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9 - Beyond Tough on Crime: Towards a Better Politics of Prosecution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2017

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Jonathan Simon
Edited by
Máximo Langer  and
David Alan Sklansky
Máximo Langer
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
David Alan Sklansky
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
 , pp. 227 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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