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8 - Do Attractive Women “Get Away” with Traffic Violations? An Observational Study of Police Responses to Traffic Stops

from Part III - The Process of Social Control as Influenced by Appearance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2019

By
Brent Teasdale ,
Taylor Gann  and
Dean Dabney
Edited by
Bonnie Berry
Bonnie Berry
Affiliation:
Social Problems Research Group
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Appearance Bias and Crime , pp. 154 - 165
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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