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... > criminology > penology > corrections (penology) > corrections > judicial ghetto

... > criminology > social history of crime > courts, corrections, punishments > corrections > judicial ghetto

... > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > race and crime > corrections > judicial ghetto

Preferred term

judicial ghetto

Definition

The term judicial ghetto is similar to the concept of prison as an ethnoracial ghetto. This entry provides additional evidence that the burgeoning prison system is modeled after American ghettos. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Prison, Judicial Ghetto]

Broader concept

corrections

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/judicial_ghetto

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