Downtown ambassadors, police relations and 'clean and safe' security

Policing and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 316-335

  Sleiman, Mark ^a   Lippert, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Governance; Private security; Public police; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957049390     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2010.493610     Document Type: Article

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