RT Journal Article
T1 A mathematical model of a criminal-prone society
A1 Nuño, Juan Carlos
A1 Herrero, Miguel A.
A1 Primicerio, Mario
AB 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
PB American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
SN 1937-1632
YR 2011
FD 2011-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43942
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43942
LA eng
NO Italy-Spain Integrated Action
NO Acción Especial UCM
NO MEC
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025