Pricing police services: Theory and practice

Policing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 380-394

  Talaga, James ^a   Tucci, Louis A ^b  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost based pricing; Data analysis; Police; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349102509     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510810895768     Document Type: Article

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