Comparing spatial patterns of robbery: Evidence from a Western and an Eastern European city

Cities

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 185-196

  Ceccato, Vânia ^a   Oberwittler, Dietrich ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cologne; GIS; Robbery; Space time patterns; Tallinn

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; GIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BALTIC STATES; CENTRAL EUROPE; COLOGNE; EASTERN EUROPE; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; TALLINN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 47549116529     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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