The effect of urban neighborhood disorder on evaluations of the police and courts

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-362

  Sprott, Jane B ^a   Doob, Anthony N ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neighborhood disorder; Perceptions of police; Perceptions of the courts

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349325933     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: 1552387X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128707306689     Document Type: Article

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