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Local Drug Markets' Response to Focused Police Enforcement

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  • Jonathan P. Caulkins

    (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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This paper introduces a model that describes how local drug markets might respond to intensive local enforcement operations known as crackdowns. The model supports the intuition of some drug policy analysts and makes concrete suggestions for how crackdowns should be managed.

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  • Jonathan P. Caulkins, 1993. "Local Drug Markets' Response to Focused Police Enforcement," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 41(5), pages 848-863, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:41:y:1993:i:5:p:848-863
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.41.5.848
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    1. Feichtinger, Gustav & Grienauer, Waltraud & Tragler, Gernot, 2002. "Optimal dynamic law enforcement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 141(1), pages 58-69, August.
    2. Chi-Bin Cheng & Hsu-Shih Shih & Boris Chen, 2017. "Subsidy rate decisions for the printer recycling industry by bi-level optimization techniques," Operational Research, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 901-919, October.
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    4. Baveja, Alok & Caulkins, Jonathan P. & Liu, Wensheng & Batta, Rajan & Karwan, Mark H., 1997. "When haste makes sense: Cracking down on street markets for illicit drugs," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 293-306, December.
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    7. Daniel Mejía, 2008. "The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A Simple Analytical Framework," CESifo Working Paper Series 2459, CESifo.
    8. Bertsimas, Dimitris. & Niño-Mora, Jose., 1994. "Restless bandit, linear programming relaxations and a primal-dual heuristic," Working papers 3727-94., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    9. Pu Cai & Jin-yi Cai & Ashish V. Naik, 1998. "Efficient Algorithms for a Scheduling Problem and its Applications to Illicit Drug Market Crackdowns," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 1(4), pages 367-376, December.
    10. Kort, P.M. & Feichtinger, G. & Hartl, R.F. & Haunschmied, J.L., 1996. "Optimal Enforcement Policies (Crackdowns) on a Drug Market," Discussion Paper 1996-29, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    11. Ginoux, Jean-Marc & Naeck, Roomila & Ruhomally, Yusra Bibi & Dauhoo, Muhammad Zaid & Perc, Matjaž, 2019. "Chaos in a predator–prey-based mathematical model for illicit drug consumption," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 347(C), pages 502-513.

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