Perceptions of trust, compliance and accommodation in police-civilian encounters: A Russian, Turkish and americ an cross-national analysis

Russian Journal of Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-148

  Hajek, Christopher ^a   Giles, Howard ^b   Barker, Valerie ^c   Demirtas Madran, H Andac ^d   Pecchioni, Loretta ^e   Choi, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Civilian; Compliance; Cross cultural; Intergroup; Law enforcement; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960792748     PISSN: 19409419     EISSN: 19409427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19409419.2008.10756706     Document Type: Article

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