What explains persistent racial disproportionality in minnesota's prison and jail populations?

Crime and Justice

Volumn 38, Issue , 2009, Pages 201-280

  Frase, Richard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 77956346685     PISSN: 01923234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/599199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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