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Research Article

Media use habits, negative encounters with the police, and perceptions of the police: the mainstreaming hypothesis versus the resonance hypothesis

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Pages 48-67 | Received 20 Sep 2019, Accepted 20 Feb 2020, Published online: 04 Mar 2020

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