Attitudes Toward the Police: The Effects of Direct and Vicarious Experience

Police Quarterly

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 343-365

  Rosenbaum, Dennis P ^a   Schuck, Amie M ^a   Costello, Sandra K ^a   Hawkins, Darnell F ^a   Ring, Marianne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes; contact; police; race; satisfaction; stereotypes; vicarious

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993790958     PISSN: 10986111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098611104271085     Document Type: Article

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