Criminal Justice Decision Making as a Stratification Process: The Role of Race and Stratification Resources in Pretrial Release

Our purpose is to bridge the criminal justice and stratification research literatures and to pursue the argument that homologous structural principles stratify allocation processes across central institutions of American society. The principle observed here in the making of bail decisions, as in ear...

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Main Author: Albonetti, Celesta Ann (Author)
Contributors: Nagel, Ilene H. ; Hauser, Robert Mason ; Hagan, John
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 1989
In:Year: 1989
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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