Crime minimisation and racial bias: What can we learn from police search data?

Economic Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 515, 2006, Pages

  Dominitz, Jeff ^a   Knowles, John ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLICE FORCE; RACISM;

EID: 33751216500     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01127.x     Document Type: Article

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