Distance travelled and offence characteristics in homicide, rape, and robbery against business

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 345-356

  Santtila, Pekka ^a   Laukkanen, Manne ^a   Zappalà, Angelo ^a,b   Bosco, Dario ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Center of Forensic Psychology   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL LAW; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; ITALY; OFFENDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; ROBBERY; TRAVEL;

EID: 50849107375     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532507X238673     Document Type: Article

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