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4 - Black Lives Matter

The Watchdog for the Criminal Justice System

from Part II - Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality as Targeted Identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

By
Lorenzo M. Boyd  and
Kimberly Conway Dumpson
Edited by
Bonnie Berry
Bonnie Berry
Affiliation:
Social Problems Research Group
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Appearance Bias and Crime , pp. 94 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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