Recidivism and survival time: Racial disparity among jail ex-inmates

Social Work Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 181-189

  Jung, Hyunzee ^a   Spjeldnes, Solveig ^b   Yamatani, Hide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Incarceration; Jail; Racial disparity; Recidivism; Survival time

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953309710     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: 15456838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/34.3.181     Document Type: Article

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