Normalization and legitimation: Modeling stigmatizing attitudes toward ex-offenders

Criminology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-55

  Hirschfield, Paul J ^a   Piquero, Alex R ^b  

^a Camden Campus of Rutgers The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ex offenders; Incarceration; Prejudice; Punitiveness; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950272314     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2010.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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