Location quotients, ambient populations, and the capital analysis of crime in Vancouver, Canada

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2423-2444

  Andresen, Martin A ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; SPECIALIZATION; URBAN POPULATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 35648984472     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a38187     Document Type: Article

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