Race and policing in different ecological contexts

Race, Ethnicity, and Policing: New and Essential Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 118-139

  Weitzer, Ronald ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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