Racial/ethnic threat and federal sentencing

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 238-270

  Feldmeyer, Ben ^a   Ulmer, Jeffery T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

federal courts; racial threat; sentencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955735610     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427810391538     Document Type: Article

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