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Immigrant threat and Latino/a disadvantage: disentangling the impact of immigration attitudes on ethnic sentencing disparities

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Pages 140-160 | Received 25 Nov 2017, Accepted 30 Jul 2018, Published online: 26 Aug 2018

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