Crime map analyst: A GIS to support local-area crime reduction

GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 113-132

  Brindley, Paul ^a   Craglia, Max ^b   Haining, Robert P ^c   Kim, Young Hoon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Korea National University of Education   (South Korea)

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