Hot spots policing experiments and criminal justice research: Lessons from the field

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 599, Issue , 2005, Pages 220-245

  Weisburd, David ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster randomized trials; Crime at place; Experimental criminology; Hot spots policing; Place based experiments; Policing

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744388580     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716205274597     Document Type: Article

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