Polish Police Officers: Personality and Risk Taking

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 104-107

  Próchniak, Piotr ^a  

^a POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY IN S UPSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Personality; Police; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873024289     PISSN: 08820783     EISSN: 19366469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11896-009-9049-8     Document Type: Article

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