Applying Tittle's control balance theory to police deviance

Policing

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 497-519

  Hickman, Matthew J ^a,b,c,d   Piquero, Alex R ^a   Lawton, Brian A ^a   Greene, Jack R ^a  

^a Bureau of Justice Statistics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural sciences; Control; Police; Role conflict; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142050330     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000006497     Document Type: Article

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