The politics of punishing: Building a state governance theory of American imprisonment variation

Punishment and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-32

  Barker, Vanessa ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American states; Crime control; Democratic process; Imprisonment; Political institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644457025     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474506059138     Document Type: Review

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