Aligning policing and public health promotion: insights from the world of foot patrol

Police Practice and Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 211-223

  Wood, Jennifer D ^a   Taylor, Caitlin J ^b   Groff, Elizabeth R ^a   Ratcliffe, Jerry H ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental criminology; Philadelphia foot patrol experiment; place management; public health law research; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925080865     PISSN: 15614263     EISSN: 1477271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2013.846982     Document Type: Article

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