Predicting Serial Killers' Home Base Using a Decision Support System

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 457-478

  Canter, David ^a   Coffey, Toby ^a   Huntley, Malcolm ^a   Missen, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decay functions; Environmental criminology; Geographic profiling; Search costs; Serial killers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034559167     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007551316253     Document Type: Article

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