The Code Of The Street And Inmate Violence: Investigating The Salience Of Imported Belief Systems

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 695-728

  Mears, Daniel P ^a   Stewart, Eric A ^a   Siennick, Sonja E ^a   Simons, Ronald L ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Importation; Incarceration; Order violence; Street code

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881589524     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12017     Document Type: Article

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