Partisan politics, electoral competition and imprisonment: An analysis of states over time

Criminology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 211-248

  Stucky, Thomas D ^a   Heimer, Karen ^b   Lang, Joseph B ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

District competition; Imprisonment trends; Party control and policy; State politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844386542     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1348.2005.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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