The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy: A reassessment of the CAPS program

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 586-606

  Lombardo, Robert M ^a   Olson, David ^a   Staton, Monte ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes to the police; Community policing; Community relations; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649306714     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511011085033     Document Type: Article

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