Pleasures of policing: An additional analysis of xenophobia

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Pleasures of policing : An additional analysis of xenophobia. / Sausdal, David.

In: Theoretical Criminology, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2018, p. 226-242.

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Sausdal, D 2018, 'Pleasures of policing: An additional analysis of xenophobia', Theoretical Criminology, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617707947

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Sausdal, D. (2018). Pleasures of policing: An additional analysis of xenophobia. Theoretical Criminology, 22(2), 226-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617707947

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Sausdal D. Pleasures of policing: An additional analysis of xenophobia. Theoretical Criminology. 2018;22(2):226-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480617707947

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Sausdal, David. / Pleasures of policing : An additional analysis of xenophobia. In: Theoretical Criminology. 2018 ; Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 226-242.

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