Obedience and Trust in the Brazilian Police from a Youth’s Perspective: The Preliminary Results

Nikolaos Stamatakis

doi:10.16993/iberoamericana.6

Obedience and Trust in the Brazilian Police from a Youth’s Perspective: The Preliminary Results

Iberoamericana – Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Volume 45 (2016): Issue 1

By: Nikolaos Stamatakis

Open Access

|Oct 2016

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