Detention circumstances in police stations: Towards setting the standards

Policing and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-69

  Blaauw, Eric ^a   Vermunt, Riël ^b   Kerkhof, Ad ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Detention; Police; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937266775     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1997.9964763     Document Type: Article

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