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Years of life lost to prison: racial and gender gradients in the United States of America

BACKGROUND: The United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any country in the world. African Americans and Hispanics comprise a disproportionately large share of the prison population. We applied a "prison life expectancy" to specify differences in exposure to imprisonment by ge...

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Autores principales: Hogg, Robert S, Druyts, Eric F, Burris, Scott, Drucker, Ernest, Strathdee, Steffanie A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18221538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-5-4