Social Context, Institutional Capacity, and Police Services: A Local Public Economies Perspective.
<italic>This article examines levels of policing services, focusing on an assessment of resources and their measurement for municipalities. Two measures of policing levels assess the reliability of the findings across alternative measurements. Social and institutional characteristics are explored to...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 270 - 284 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar/Apr2018
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