Power of criminal attractors: Modeling the pull of activity nodes

JASSS

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-

  Frank, Richard ^a   Dabbaghian, Vahid ^a   Reid, Andrew ^b   Singh, Suraj ^c   Cinnamon, Jonathan ^a   Brantingham, Patricia ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Computational Criminology; Crime Attractor; Directionality of Crime; Mathematical Modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751478768     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.1734     Document Type: Article

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