Geographies of detention and imprisonment: Interrogating spatial practices of confinement, discipline, law, and state power

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 459-477

  Martin, Lauren L ^a   Mitchelson, Matthew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GLOBALIZATION; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK;

EID: 59849124138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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