Punishment from the top down? : federal influence on state-level criminal justice policy /

Numerous scholars have suggested that the federal government has been partially responsible for the rising number of inmates in state correctional systems. Despite these assertions, previous studies have failed to demonstrate why the crime issue became so politically attractive to federal elected of...

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Main Author:	Nicholson-Crotty, Sean
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2003.
Subjects:	Major political science.
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