The use of public attitude surveys: What can they tell police managers?

Policing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-213

  Beck, Karen ^a   Boni, Nadia ^a   Packer, Jeanette ^a  

^a National Police Research Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude surveys; Australia; Community Attitudes to Crime; Community policing; Community relations Australian Community Research (1992); Luscombe associates; Melbourne; Policing and Law and Order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040220104     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639519910271238     Document Type: Review

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