Scientific Research

Utah County Courthouse, Provo County, UT
Conrad Jensen

Using professional Facility Dogs in the courthouse environment is a new idea, so little study has been done on this specific issue. For the time being, the best that an interested person can do is to try to extrapolate from the literature covering similar situations.

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