From Mass Incarceration to Reform: An Analysis of Crime Policy Nationally and in the City of Brotherly Love
Matthew Ronald Menschner
Published September 2018
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Notes
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Samuel Walker, Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice”, 2nd
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Marc Mauer, Race to Incarcerate, 51.
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Ibid.
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