Visible minority applicant concerns and assessment of occupational role in the era of community-based policing

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 339-353

  Perrott, Stephen B ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Authoritarianism; Job performance; Minority recruitment; Police applicants; Police personnel; Police race relations; Racial and ethnic differences; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033181439     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1298(199909/10)9:5<339::AID-CASP517>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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