What Influences Offenders’ Willingness to Serve Alternative Sanctions?

The Prison Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 145-167

  May, David C ^a   Wood, Peter B ^b  

^a EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative sanctions; exchange rates; relative severity of prison; sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444416425     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885505276988     Document Type: Article

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