Are Blacks and Hispanics Disproportionately Incarcerated Relative to Their Arrests? Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality Between Arrest and Incarceration

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 187-199

  Harris, Casey T ^a   Steffensmeier, Darrell ^a   Ulmer, Jeffrey T ^a   Painter Davis, Noah ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest; Disproportionality; Incarceration; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455252687     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-009-9019-x     Document Type: Article

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