Police efficiency in offences cleared: An analysis of english "Basic Command Units"

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 186-208

  Drake, Leigh M ^a   Simper, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Police efficiency; Stochastic output distance frontier

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844560503     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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