Race and the fragility of the legal distinction between juveniles and adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Rattan, Aneeta ^a   Levine, Cynthia S ^a   Dweck, Carol S ^a   Eberhardt, Jennifer L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; POLICY; PUNISHMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; CRIMINAL LAW; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CRIMINAL LAW; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUNISHMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861378935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036680     Document Type: Article

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