IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nov/artigo/v22y2012i1p165-190.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Eficiência técnica da polícia militar em Minas Gerais [Technical efficiency of the police in Minas Gerais]

Author

Listed:
  • Paulo Roberto Scalco

    (FACE/UFG)

  • Airton Lopes Amorim

    (UFV)

  • Adriano Provezano Gomes

    (UFV)

Abstract

This study sought to calculate an efficiency index in crime fighting that would allow comparison between Minas Gerais State military police units. The efficiency index were calculated by Data Envelopment Analysis and the results indicated a large discrepancy between the municipalities analyzed and possible public security policy could try to raise efficiency levels in the worst municipalities using the most efficient ones as benchmarks. Furthermore, a Tobit model was estimated to test the relevance of the social and economic environmental exercised in achieving the efficiency index. The results showed that the set of variables used explained only 10% of the variability of the index calculated.

Suggested Citation

  • Paulo Roberto Scalco & Airton Lopes Amorim & Adriano Provezano Gomes, 2012. "Eficiência técnica da polícia militar em Minas Gerais [Technical efficiency of the police in Minas Gerais]," Nova Economia, Economics Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), vol. 22(1), pages 165-190, January-A.
    • Handle: RePEc:nov:artigo:v:22:y:2012:i:1:p:165-190
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&pid=S0103-63512012000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=pt
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-63512012000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=pt
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    criminality; public safety; public policies; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA);
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C60 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - General
    • H76 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Other Expenditure Categories
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nov:artigo:v:22:y:2012:i:1:p:165-190. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Lucas Resende de Carvalho (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fufmgbr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.