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Updated annually, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online gives you instant access to the most authoritative and up-to-date scholarship in the field of sociology.
A comprehensive reference that presents an overview of imprisonment in the nation that knows it best (i.e., with the highest incarceration rate in the world).