Civil Rights Legislation and Legalized Exclusion: Mass Incarceration and the Masking of Inequality

Sociological Forum

Volumn 30, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 589-611

  Pettit, Becky ^a   Sykes, Bryan L ^b  

^a Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil rights; Incarceration; Law; Policy; Racial inequality; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930251825     PISSN: 08848971     EISSN: 15737861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/socf.12179     Document Type: Article

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