Political Institutions, Minorities, and Punishment: A Pooled Cross-National Analysis of Imprisonment Rates

Social Forces

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 725-755

  Jacobs, David ^a   Kleban, Richard ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 2142810071     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2004.0013     Document Type: Article

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