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Precautionary policing and dispositives of risk in a police force control room in domestic abuse incidents: an ethnography of call handlers, dispatchers and response officers

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Pages 65-80 | Received 01 Oct 2018, Accepted 08 Jan 2019, Published online: 15 Jan 2019

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