Fighting Crime with Math

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Fighting Crime with Math

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Feb 20, 2010

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Scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science presented a mathematical model to predict criminal behavior and police success. Christie Nicholson reports

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Feb 20, 2010

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