Mobile phone reprogramming: Its extent and prevention

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-279

  Kaplankiran, Tulay ^a   Mailley, Jen ^a   Whitehead, Shaun ^a   Farrell, Graham ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mobile phone theft; Reprogramming; Stolen goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961010864     PISSN: 14603780     EISSN: 17434629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150060     Document Type: Article

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