How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force

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Alpert, Geoffrey P., and William C. Smith. “How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force”. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), vol. 85, no. 2, 1994, p. 481, https://doi.org/10.2307/1144107.
Alpert, G. P., & Smith, W. C. (1994). How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 85(2), 481. https://doi.org/10.2307/1144107
Alpert GP, Smith WC. How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-). 1994;85(2):481.
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