Policy Legitimacy, Rhetorical Politics, and the Evaluation of City-Street Video Surveillance Monitoring Programs in Canada

Canadian Review of Sociology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 328-349

  Lett, Dan ^a   Hier, Sean ^a   Walby, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84868653179     PISSN: 17556171     EISSN: 1755618X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-618X.2012.01298.x     Document Type: Article

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