The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 651, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-121

  Saperstein, Aliya ^a   Penner, Andrew M ^b   Kizer, Jessica M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

American I; Asian; prison; racial classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888112100     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716213503097     Document Type: Article

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