Pepper spray: An unreasonable response to suspect verbal resistance

Policing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 206-219

  Adang, Otto M J ^a   Mensink, Jos ^b  

^a Netherlands Police Academy   (Netherlands)

^b IVA Tilburg   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Force; Police; Spraying; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242717089     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510410536823     Document Type: Article

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