The New ‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 377-389

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; caste; ghetto; prison; racial domination; stigma; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001541716     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480600004003007     Document Type: Article

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