Expressive crimes in post-socialist states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 2-30

  Ceccato, Vǎnia ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assault; Crime geography; GIS; Homicide; Post socialist countries; Regression models; Trends; Vandalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949139765     PISSN: 14043858     EISSN: 16512340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14043850701610428     Document Type: Article

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