Construction of offender profiles using fuzzy logic

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 408-418

  Verma, Arvind ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Mathematics; Offenders; Police; Social sciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133567     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639519710169216     Document Type: Article

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