Exploring State-Level Variation in Juvenile Incarceration Rates: Symbolic Threats and Competing Explanations

The Prison Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 470-490

  Mears, Daniel P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

incarceration; juvenile; symbolic threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750450031     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885506294237     Document Type: Article

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