Evaluating the usefulness of functional distance measures when calibrating journey-to-crime distance decay functions

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-200

  Kent, Josh ^a   Leitner, Michael ^a   Curtis, Andrew ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criminal geographic profile; Distance decay model; Functional distance; Journey to crime model; Serial offender

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH;

CRIMINAL GEOGRAPHIC PROFILE; DISTANCE DECAY MODEL; FUNCTIONAL DISTANCE; JOURNEY-TO-CRIME MODEL; SERIAL OFFENDER;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRIME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644623130     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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