Making sense of police intelligence? The use of a cybernetic model in analysing information and power in police intelligence processes

Policing and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 289-314

  Gill, Peter ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Governance; Information; Intelligence; Policing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345063803     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1998.9964793     Document Type: Article

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