Controlling other people's children: Racialized views of delinquency and whites' punitive attitudes toward juvenile offenders

Criminology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 673-710

  Pickett, Justin T ^a   Chiricos, Ted ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84864065841     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2012.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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