Search Profiling with Partial Knowledge of Deterrence
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Search Profiling with Partial Knowledge of Deterrence
Consider the choice of a profiling policy where decisions to search for evidence of crime may vary with observable covariates of the persons at risk of search. I pose a planning problem whose objective is to minimise the social cost of crime and search. The consequences of a search rule depend on the extent to which search deters crime. I study the planning problem when the planner has partial ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Economic Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0013-0133,1468-0297
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01128.x