Ethnicity, trust and cooperation with police: Testing the dominance of the process-based model

European Journal of Criminology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 500-524

  Sargeant, Elise ^a   Murphy, Kristina ^b   Cherney, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooperation with police; ethnicity; police legitimacy; police performance; procedural justice; trust in police

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902185438     PISSN: 14773708     EISSN: 17412609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477370813511386     Document Type: Article

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