The usual suspects: Police stop and search practices in Canada

Policing and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-407

  Wortley, Scot ^a   Owusu Bempah, Akwasi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

perceptions of injustice; police; race; stop and search; vicarious police contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859014311     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2011.610198     Document Type: Article

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