Social disruption, state priorities, and minority threat: A cross-national study of imprisonment

Punishment and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-28

  Ruddell, Rick ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative criminal justice; Cross national imprisonment; Imprisonment; Punishment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344433774     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474505048131     Document Type: Review

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