Determinants of citizen satisfaction with the police: The effects of residential location

Policing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 655-664

  Kusow, Abdi M ^a   Wilson, Leon C ^b   Martin, David E ^b  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Location; Police; Race; Satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013286974     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639519710192887     Document Type: Article

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