Best practices in vehicle stop data collection and analysis

Policing

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-92

  Tillyer, Rob ^a   Engel, Robin S ^b   Cherkauskas, Jennifer Calnon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Decision making; Discrimination; Police; Traffic enforcement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649312905     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511011020601     Document Type: Article

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