The role of race and ethnicity in parole decisions

Criminology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 907-938

  Huebner, Beth M ^a   Bynum, Timothy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Parole; Proportional hazard models; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349162735     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2008.00130.x     Document Type: Article

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