If we build it they will come: Human rights violations and the prison industrial complex

Societies without Borders

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 273-288

  Smith, Earl ^a   Hattery, Angela ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Globalization of prisons; Prison industrial complex; Prison industries

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548080318     PISSN: 18718868     EISSN: 18721915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187219107X203603     Document Type: Article

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