Sex offenders and residential location: A predictive-analytical framework

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1925-1942

  Mack, Elizabeth A ^a   Grubesic, Tony H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CRIME; DATA MINING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGISLATION; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 77957376495     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a42370     Document Type: Article

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