Defining core police tasks: The neglect of the symbolic dimension?

Policing and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-71

  Walker, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core and ancillary functions; Policing; Sovereign crime control; Symbolic dimension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037737648     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1996.9964740     Document Type: Article

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