Chinese immigrants' attitudes toward the police in San Francisco

Policing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 621-643

  Chu, Doris C ^a   Hung, Linda S J ^b  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attitudes to the police; Chinese people; Immigrants; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649259176     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511011085051     Document Type: Article

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