Risk Clusters, Hotspots, and Spatial Intelligence: Risk Terrain Modeling as an Algorithm for Police Resource Allocation Strategies

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 339-362

  Kennedy, Leslie W ^a   Caplan, Joel M ^a   Piza, Eric ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hotspots; Risk clusters; Risk terrain modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960995099     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-010-9126-2     Document Type: Article

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