Community information as boundary object: Police responsibility for abuse survivors

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 806-825

  Westbrook, Lynn ^a   Finn, Jeanine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Crisis information; Domestic violence; Government information; Information transfer; Police; Police information; Qualitative research; Small world; Symbolic interactionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867720852     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211277055     Document Type: Article

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