Geographic Profiling Analysis: Principles, Methods and Applications

Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-43

  Rossmo, D Kim ^a   Velarde, Lorie ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Irvine Police Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Colour geoprofile maps; Geographic profiling software; Global positioning system (GPS); Hit score percentage (HS ); Intelligence led policing approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889473291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987193.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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