The space/time behaviour of dwelling burglars: Finding near repeat patterns in serial offender data

Applied Geography

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-146

  Johnson, Derek ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Burglary; Clustering; Crime prevention; Repeat; Serial offending

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877828447     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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