Bayesian journey-to-crime modelling of single and multiple crime-type series in Baltimore County, MD

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-236

  Leitner, Michael ^a   Kent, Joshua ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore County; Bayesian journey to crime modelling; Criminal geographic profiling; Maryland

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450170348     PISSN: 15444759     EISSN: 15444767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jip.109     Document Type: Article

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