Face‐ing the Offender: Examining Public Attitudes Towards Young OffendersFootnote¹

[1] The preparation of this article was made possible by a research grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to A.N. Doob. I would like to thank Tony Doob and one anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. A previous version of this paper was presented at the American Society of Criminology meetings, San Francisco California November 2000.

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