What citizens think about the police: Assessing actual and wished-for frequency of police activities in one's neighbourhood

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 188-202

  Salmi, Satu ^a,c   Voeten, Marinus ^b   Keskinen, Esko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Community attitudes; Community policing; Don't know responses; Police personnel; Police priorities; Public attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144436280     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.810     Document Type: Article

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