Racial threat and social control: A test of the political, economic, and threat of black crime hypotheses

Social Forces

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 557-576

  Eitle, David ^a   D'Alessio, Stewart J ^a   Stolzenberg, Lisa ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036967675     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2003.0007     Document Type: Article

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