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Forecasting of Shootings Using Risk Terrain Modeling

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  1. School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, 123 Washington Street, 07102, Newark, NJ, USA

    Joel M. Caplan & Leslie W. Kennedy

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  1. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  2. VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gerben Bruinsma

  3. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    David Weisburd

  4. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel

    David Weisburd

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Caplan, J.M., Kennedy, L.W. (2014). Forecasting of Shootings Using Risk Terrain Modeling. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_296

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