Blind discretion: Girls of color & Delinquency in the juvenile justice system

UCLA Law Review

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1502-1539

  Nanda, Jyoti ^a  

^a Core Faculty in both the Critical Race Studies Program ^*  (United States)

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