Predicting Serial Killers' Home Base Using a Decision Support System

The effectiveness of a geographical decision support tool (Dragnet) forlocating the base of serial offenders was compared across 570 modelscomprised of a range of negative exponential functions, buffer zonecomponents, and normalization parameters. The models were applied to thebody disposal location...

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Authors: Canter, David (Author) ; Coffey, Toby (Author) ; Huntley, Malcolm (Author) ; Missen, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2000
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2000, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-478
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Keywords:
search costs
decay functions
Environmental Criminology
geographic profiling
serial killers