Risk Terrain Modeling: Brokering Criminological Theory and GIS Methods for Crime Forecasting

Justice Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 360-381

  Caplan, Joel M ^a   Kennedy, Leslie W ^a   Miller, Joel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime; Gis; Modeling; Risk; Shootings

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951993008     PISSN: 07418825     EISSN: 17459109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2010.486037     Document Type: Article

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