Simply criminal: Predicting burglars' occupancy decisions with a simple heuristic

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 316-326

  Snook, Brent ^a   Dhami, Mandeep K ^b   Kavanagh, Jennifer M ^a,c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Burglary; Crime prevention; Franklin's Rule; Matching Heuristic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CITY; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HOUSING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THEFT;

ADULT; CITIES; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; HOUSING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRISONERS; THEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961172653     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-010-9238-0     Document Type: Article

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