Imprisonment and social classification in five common-law democracies, 1955-1985

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 350-386

  Sutton, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/316961     Document Type: Article

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