Police and immigration enforcement: Impacts on Latino(a) residents' perceptions of police

Policing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 631-653

  Vidales, Guadalupe ^a   Day, Kristen M ^b   Powe, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic groups; Immigration; Perception; Police; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849114200     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510911000740     Document Type: Article

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