Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
884838 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 2006 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

An intertemporal general equilibrium model of criminal behavior is used to analyze the effect on crime of changing policy parameters, specifically the length of the prison term, the severity of punishment, and the amount of police resources. The number of crimes in society can be decomposed into an incentive part, an incarceration part, and a crime competition part.

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Incentive and incarceration effects in a general equilibrium model of crime
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