Policing the homeless: Policy, practice, and perceptions

Policing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 357-374

  McNamara, Robert Hartmann ^a   Crawford, Charles ^b   Burns, Ronald ^c  

^a THE CITADEL   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrators; Broken windows; Community oriented policing; Implementation; Interviews; Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878261675     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511311329741     Document Type: Article

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