Crime risk in urban neighbourhoods: The use of insurance data to analyse changing spatial forms

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Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 228-240

  Wong, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN CHARACTERISTICS;

UK;

EID: 0031404295     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1997.tb00025.x     Document Type: Article

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