Northward migration and the rise of racial disparity in American incarceration, 1880-1950

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 281-326

  Muller, Christopher ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/666384     Document Type: Article

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