The Nexus: Homelessness and Incarceration in Two American Cities

Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 500-534

  Gowan, Teresa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crime; homelessness; incarceration; masculinities; neoliberalism; poverty; quality of life policing; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996228033     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138102003004007     Document Type: Article

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