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Original Articles

Space-time characteristics of micro-scale crime occurrences: an application of a network-based space-time search window technique for crime incidents in Chicago

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Pages 697-719 | Received 01 Feb 2014, Accepted 09 Sep 2014, Published online: 02 Mar 2015

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