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Easton, M., Ponsaers, P. (2007). “Community (Oriented) Policing reassured: betekenis in een Vlaamse context”, in Reassurance Policing: Concepten en Receptie, Ponsaers, P., Gunther Moor, L. (eds.), Cahiers Politiestudies, n°3, 49-78.

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