Public Confidence in Policing
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Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing.
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Criminology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-3529,0007-0955
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azl031