Why 'Soft' policing is hard: On the curious development of reassurance policing, how it became neighbourhood policing and what this signifies about the politics of police reform

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 156-169

  Innes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neighbourhood policing; Police reform; Reassurance policing; Signal crimes; Soft policing

Indexed keywords

EID: 22144477205     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.818     Document Type: Article

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