Racial threat, partisan politics, and racial disparities in prison admissions: A panel analysis

Criminology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 209-238

  Keen, Bradley ^a   Jacobs, David ^b  

^a Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole ^*  (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Partisanship and discrimination in the criminal justice system; Race and the politics of punishment; Racial imprisonment disparities; Racial threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 61649093992     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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