Community policing and the New Zealand police: Correlates of attitudes toward the work world in a community-oriented national police organization

Policing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 589-617

  Winfree Jr , L Thomas ^a   Newbold, Greg ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attitude survey; New Zealand; Police

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039035829     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639519910299553     Document Type: Article

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