Roles and responsibilities: Analyzing local leaders' views on jail crowding from a systems perspective

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 458-482

  Davis, Robin King ^a   Applegate, Brandon K ^a   Otto, Charles W ^a   Surette, Ray ^a   McCarthy, Bernard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowding; Jails; Policy makers

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042529912     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128704263983     Document Type: Article

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