A survey of stress levels and time spent across law enforcement duties: Police chief and officer agreement

Policing (Oxford)

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 109-122

  Korre, Maria ^a,b   Farioli, Andrea ^a,b,c   Varvarigou, Vasileia ^a,d   Sato, Sho ^b   Kales, Stefanos N ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 84911433867     PISSN: 17524512     EISSN: 17524520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/police/pau001     Document Type: Article

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