Changing a decision taken under uncertainty: the case of the criminal's location choice

Urban Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1335-1343

  Deutsch, Joseph ^a   Epstein, Gil S ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIMINAL ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; LOCATION CHOICE; POLICE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0031686797     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098984385     Document Type: Article

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