The demographic and ecological distribution of police discretion in an urban area.
Police discretion has been frequently studied in relationship to arrest practices. The present study reconceptualized Shaw and McKay's (1942) social disorganization theory of the causes of delinquency as a theory proposing that police discretion is largely determined by conditions of disorganiz...
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The University of Arizona.
1990
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185317 |