Over-representation of minorities in the juvenile justice system: Three counties in rural Texas

Federal Probation

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 44-48

  Rodney, H Elaine ^a   Tachia, H Richard ^a  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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