Activity fields and the dynamics of crime: Advancing knowledge about the role of the environment in crime causation

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-87

  Wikström, Per Olof H ^a   Ceccato, Vania ^b   Hardie, Beth ^a   Treiber, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crime causation; People and place interactions; Peterborough adolescent and young Adult Development Study (PADS+); Situational action theory; Space time budgets

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950460664     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-009-9083-9     Document Type: Article

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