Policing with Contempt: The Degrading of Truth and Denial of Justice in the Aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster.
The Hillsborough disaster happened at a premier United Kingdom soccer stadium in April 1989 claiming the lives of ninety-six men, women, and children. Over the next decade there followed a Home Office inquiry, a criminal investigation, compensation hearings as far as the House of Lords, the longest...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Law & Society Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 273 - 298 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep99
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