The race of a criminal record: How incarceration colors racial perceptions

Social Problems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-113

  Saperstein, Aliya ^a   Penner, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Incarceration; Inequality; Race; Racial classification; Racial identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549107966     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.1.92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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