Routing out the hot spots: Toward using GIS and crime-place principles to examine criminal damage to bus shelters

GIS and Evidence-Based Policy Making

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 69-94

  Newton, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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