Examining burglars' target selection: Interview, experiment or ethnomethodology?

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-59

  Nee, Claire ^a   Taylor, Max ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Burglars; Methodology; Offender based research; Residential burglary; Situational cues; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 6944224599     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160008410831     Document Type: Article

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