Racial/Ethnic Connection with Confidence in the Police: Equal Treatment Matters.
Recent discussions on confidence in the police by race/ethnicity call for shifting the research focus from whether race/ethnicity matters to why and how it matters. The purpose of this article is to decipher the mediating role of the quality of police treatment in a nuanced study of racial impact on...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 49 - 71 |
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University of Toronto Press
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