CSI and moral authority: The police and science

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-81

  Cavender, Gray ^a   Deutsch, Sarah K ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Moral authority; Science; Television crime genre

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149152568     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659007074449     Document Type: Article

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