Predictive mapping of crime by ProMap: Accuracy, units of analysis, and the environmental backcloth

Putting Crime in its Place: Units of Analysis in Geographic Criminology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 171-198

  Johnson, Shane D ^a   Bowers, Kate J ^a   Birks, Dan J ^b   Pease, Ken ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955015691     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09688-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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