The police and punishment: Understanding the pains of policing

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-58

  Harkin, Diarmaid M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Penal sensibilities; police violence; policing; punishment; punitiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961327607     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: 14617439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480614543043     Document Type: Article

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