Creating Burglary Profiles Using Latent Class Analysis: A New Approach to Offender Profiling

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1582-1611

  Fox, Bryanna Hahn ^a   Farrington, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

burglary; latent class analysis; offender profiling; policing; typologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868694382     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854812457921     Document Type: Article

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