Between a hunch and a hard place: Making suspicion reasonable at the Canadian border

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 461-480

  Pratt, Anna ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

administrative knowledges; border control; discretion; law; race; reasonable; risk; suspicion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649783703     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663910378434     Document Type: Article

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