Community policing in a high crime transitional state: The Case of South Africa Since Democratization in 1994

Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-56

  Minnaar, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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