Cops and drivers: Police discretion and the enforcement of Maine's 1981 OUI law
✍ Scribed by Allan R. Meyers; Timothy Heeren; Ralph Hingson; David Kovenock
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 612 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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