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Revisiting the Racial Threat Thesis: The Role of Police Organizational Characteristics in Predicting Race‐Specific Drug Arrest Rates

David EitleCorrespondence[email protected]
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Susanne Monahan
Pages 528-561 | Published online: 22 Jul 2009

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