Race and imprisonments: Vigilante Violence, Minority Threat, and Racial Politics

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-187

  Jacobs, David ^a   Malone, Chad ^a   Iles, Gale ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINAL LAW; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MINORITY GROUP; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

CRIMINAL LAW; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; MINORITY GROUPS; POPULATION GROUPS; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PUNISHMENT; RACE RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84858694979     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01230.x     Document Type: Article

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