Examining Police Effectiveness as a Precursor to Legitimacy and Cooperation with Police

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 895-925

  Kochel, Tammy Rinehart ^a   Parks, Roger ^b   Mastrofski, Stephen D ^b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cooperation; crime reporting; effectiveness; legitimacy; police

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882261509     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2011.633544     Document Type: Article

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