Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh

Punishment & Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 95-133

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

African Americans; caste control; ghetto; inmate society; post Keynesian state; prison; race making; racial disproportionality; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660654     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14624740122228276     Document Type: Article

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