Trends in the imprisonment of women in Canada

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-198

  Gartner, Rosemary ^a   Webster, Cheryl Marie ^b   Doob, Anthony N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imprisonment; Punitiveness; Remand; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149171854     PISSN: 17077753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.51.2.169     Document Type: Article

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