%0 Journal Article
%A Nuño, Juan Carlos
%A Herrero, Miguel A.
%A Primicerio, Mario
%T A mathematical model of a criminal-prone society
%D 2011
%@ 1937-1632
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43942
%X Criminals are common to all societies. To fight against them the community takes different security measures as, for example, to bring about a police. Thus, crime causes a depletion of the common wealth not only by criminal acts but also because the cost of hiring a police force. In this paper, we present a mathematical model of a criminal-prone self-protected society that is divided into socio-economical classes. We study the effect of a non-null crime rate on a free-of-criminals society which is taken as a reference system. As a consequence, we define a criminal-prone society as one whose free-ofcriminals steady state is unstable under small perturbations of a certain socioeconomical context. Finally, we compare two alternative strategies to control crime: (i) enhancing police efficiency, either by enlarging its size or by updating its technology, against (ii) either reducing criminal appealing or promoting social classes at risk
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