Addressing Racial Disparities in Incarceration

Prison Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Mauer, Marc ^a  

^a The Sentencing Project   (United States)

Author keywords

criminal justice policy and practice and racial disparity; mass incarceration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869101537     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: 15527522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885511415227     Document Type: Article

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