Modelling high-intensity crime areas: Comparing police perceptions with offence/offender data in Sheffield

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 503-524

  Craglia, Massimo ^a,b   Haining, Robert ^c   Signoretta, Paola ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; POLICE FORCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SHEFFIELD [ENGLAND]; SHEFFIELD [SHEFFIELD (MTD)]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 15944372275     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a36143     Document Type: Article

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