A geodemographic profiler for high offender propensity areas in the city of Tshwane, South Africa

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-127

  Breetzke, Gregory D ^a   Horn, Andre C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CRIME; LAW ENFORCEMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; POST-APARTHEID; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; PRETORIA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 65949124678     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a40159     Document Type: Article

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