Driving racial profiling research forward: Learning lessons from sentencing research

Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 657-665

  Tillyer, Rob ^a   Hartley, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

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EID: 77954757069     PISSN: 00472352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.04.039     Document Type: Article

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