Measuring Procedural Justice in Police-Citizen Encounters

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 845-871

  Jonathan Zamir, Tal ^a   Mastrofski, Stephen D ^b   Moyal, Shomron ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

formative measures; legitimacy; policing; procedural justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938418413     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2013.845677     Document Type: Article

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