Dynamics of a robbery: Criminological aspects, security issues and prevention - an exploratory study

Police Practice and Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-264

  de Gregorio, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action sequences; ATLAS.ti; Qualitative analysis; Robberies; Security and prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959328369     PISSN: 15614263     EISSN: 1477271X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2010.500100     Document Type: Article

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