Viewing Things Differently: The Dimensions of Public Perceptions of Police Legitimacy

Criminology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-135

  Tankebe, Justice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Distributive fairness; Legitimacy; Obligation to obey; Procedural fairness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874146269     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: 17459125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2012.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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