Fashion conscious burglars? Testing the principles of offender profiling with footwear impressions recovered at domestic burglaries

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-345

  Tonkin, Matthew ^a   Bond, John W ^b   Woodhams, Jessica ^c  

^a RAMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Northamptonshire Police   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crimes; Criminal investigative analysis; Linkage; Offences; Serial

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949217019     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160802244108     Document Type: Article

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