Incident reporting: A technique for studying police corruption

Policing and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-213

  Vigneswaran, Darshan Vijay ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corruption; Research methods; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957933554     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2010.540658     Document Type: Review

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