Victim-precipitated homicide: Police use of deadly force in British Columbia

Policing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 432-448

  Parent, Richard B ^a   Verdun Jones, Simon ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Police; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346339944     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639519810228741     Document Type: Article

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