Traveling to violence: The case for a mobility-based spatial typology of homicide

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-308

  Tita, George ^a,b   Griffiths, Elizabeth ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Consortium on Violence Research   (United States)

^c Department of Sociology ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Homicide; Mobility triangles; Victim offender mobility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; OFFENDER; PREDATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORY; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 22244470787     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427804270051     Document Type: Article

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