Putting the “Con” into Constitutions: The Economics of Prison Gangs

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  2010

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  Journal of Law Economics & Organization

• Publication date

  2010-08-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Law, Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1093/JLEO/EWN021
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