Arming probation officers: Enhancing public confidence and officer safety

Federal Probation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 24-28

  Small, Shawn E ^b   Torres, Sam ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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