Role call: Preprofessional socialization into police culture

Policing and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-242

  Conti, Norman ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Moral career; Police selection; Police training; Preprofessional socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85055352309     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439460500309865     Document Type: Article

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