Crime, punishment, and American inequality

Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 771-796

  Western, Bruce ^a   Kleykamp, Meredith ^a   Rosenfeld, Jake ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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