Police response to crime: The perceptions of victims from two Polish cities

Policing and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 235-252

  Mawby, R I ^a   Ostrihanska, Z ^b   Wojcik, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Burglary; Evaluation; Poland; Policework; Post communist consumers; Victims

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998129606     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.1997.9964776     Document Type: Article

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