Sentencing laffer curves, political myopia, and prison space

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Clark, J R ^a   Lee, Dwight R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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