Images of prime time justice: A content analysis of "NYPD blue" and "law & order"

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 161-180

  Eschholz, Sarah ^a   Mallard, Matthew ^a   Flynn, Stacey ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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