Crime in border regions: The Scandinavian case of Öresund, 1998-2001

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 807-826

  Ceccato, Vânia ^a   Haining, Robert ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Border region; Crime trends; Spatial statistics and GIS

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; CRIME; GIS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; ORESUND; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 25444522450     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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