The Israeli criminal justice system in action - Is justice administered differentially?

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-28

  Fishman, Gideon ^a,b   Rattner, Arye ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Criminal justice; Ethnic disparities; Israel; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444438247     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02362170     Document Type: Article

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