Criminal Careers: Discrete or Continuous?
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Onto Clustering of Criminal Careers⋆
We analyze criminal careers through crime nature, frequency, duration and severity. We propose a tool that yields a visual clustering of these criminal careers, enabling the identification of classes of criminals.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2199-4641,2199-465X
DOI: 10.1007/s40865-016-0029-2