Crime and Place: A Longitudinal Examination of Street Segment Patterns in Vancouver, BC

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 127-147

  Curman, Andrea S N ^a   Andresen, Martin A ^b   Brantingham, Paul J ^b  

^a Police Services Ministry of Justice Province of British Columbia   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crime and place; Spatial criminology; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930931230     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: 15737799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-014-9228-3     Document Type: Article

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