Time to burn: Modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 756-770

  Prestemon, Jeffrey P ^a   Butry, David T ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive; Crime; Firesetting; Poisson; Police; Poverty; Wages

Indexed keywords

CRIME; FIRE MANAGEMENT;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23744482521     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2005.00760.x     Document Type: Article

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