Sentencing young minority males for drug offenses: Testing for conditional effects between race/ethnicity, gender and age during the US war on drugs

Punishment and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-276

  Curry, Theodore R ^a   Corral Camacho, Guadalupe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Drug offense; Gender; Race ethnicity; Sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249103502     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474508090231     Document Type: Article

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