Prey selection among Los Angeles car thieves

Crime Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Bounded rationality; Crime; Environmental criminology; Optimal foraging; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940256481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-7680-2-3     Document Type: Article

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