A crime index with Thurstone's scaling of crime severity

Journal of Criminal Justice

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 237-244

  Ying, Keung Kwan ^a   Wai, Cheung Ip ^a   Kwan, Patrick ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Correlation; Crime index; Crime typologies; Crime vignettes; Paired comparisons; Perceived seriousness; Scale value

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034178703     PISSN: 00472352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2352(00)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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