Moral panic as racial degradation ceremony: Racial stratification and the local-level backlash against Latino/a immigrants

Punishment and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-119

  Longazel, Jamie G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazleton; immigration; moral panic; Pennsylvania; racial stratification; war on crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872310625     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: 17413095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1462474512466200     Document Type: Article

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