Foreclosing on Incarceration? State Correctional Policy Enactments and the Great Recession

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 317-337

  Brown, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a NIAGARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economy; incarceration; prison; recession; state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875518854     PISSN: 08874034     EISSN: 15523586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0887403411434547     Document Type: Review

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