Contrasting simulated and empirical experiments in crime prevention

Journal of Experimental Criminology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-213

  Eck, John E ^a   Liu, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Computers; Crime patterns; Crime prevention; Experimental validity; Experiments; Measurement error; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649087317     PISSN: 15733750     EISSN: 15728315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11292-008-9059-z     Document Type: Article

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