Safety or liberty?: The Bogus trade-off of cross-deputization policy

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 314-324

  Epstein, Liana Maris ^a   Goff, Phillip Atiba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL RIGHTS; IMMIGRATION POLICY; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; RACISM; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 83855160940     PISSN: 15297489     EISSN: 15302415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2011.01246.x     Document Type: Article

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