‘Disrupting the Optimal Forager’: Predictive Risk Mapping and Domestic Burglary Reduction in Trafford, Greater Manchester

International Journal of Police Science and Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 30-41

  Fielding, Matthew ^a   Jones, Vincent ^a  

^a Openshaw Complex   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

burglary dwelling; optimal forager; police resource deployment; predictive mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909310467     PISSN: 14613557     EISSN: 14781603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1350/ijps.2012.14.1.260     Document Type: Article

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