A cross-national comparison of citizen perceptions of the police in New York City and St Petersburg, Russia

Policing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-36

  Davis, Robert C ^a   Ortiz, Christopher W ^a   Gilinskiy, Yakov ^b   Ylesseva, Irina ^b   Briller, Vladimir ^c  

^a Vera Institute of Justice   (United States)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes to the police; Policing; Public opinion; Russia; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842615067     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510410519895     Document Type: Review

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