Identifying Patterns and Pathways of Offending Behaviour: A New Approach to Typologies of Crime

European Journal of Criminology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-87

  Francis, Brian ^a   Soothill, Keith ^b   Fligelstone, Rachel ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clusters; Criminal Trajectories; Latent Class Analysis; Pathways; Specialization; Typologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043072776     PISSN: 14773708     EISSN: 17412609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1477370804038707     Document Type: Article

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