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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture, by David Gurnham. London: Routledge, 2014, 148pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-415-51660-0.

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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture, by David Gurnham. London: Routledge, 2014, 148pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-415-51660-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Durham University
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Legal Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 170 - 175
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