Discipline and devolution: Constructions of poverty, race, and criminality in the politics of rural prison development

Antipode

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 416-438

  Bonds, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Neoliberal restructuring; Poverty; Race

Indexed keywords

CRIME; DEVOLUTION; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC STRUCTURE; POVERTY; RACE; RURAL AREA; RURAL SOCIETY;

IDAHO; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66549115443     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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