Crime and punishment: Does it pay to punish?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3942-3950

  Iglesias, J R ^a,b   Semeshenko, V ^c   Schneider, E M ^a   Gordon, M B ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Sistemas Complexos   (Brazil)

^c National Academy of Economic Sciences   (Argentina)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Becker's theory; Crime and punishment; Inequality; Social systems; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY;

BECKER'S THEORY; CRIME AND PUNISHMENTS; INEQUALITY; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; SOCIOPHYSICS;

CRIME;

EID: 84860531705     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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