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Crime and punishment: An introductory analysis in a noncooperative framework

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The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to provide the unsophisticated reader with an introduction to modelling issues of crime and punishment; and, second, it seeks to introduce a noncooperative analytical framework as the basic modelling technique to analyze issues of crime and punishment. To those purposes, I introduce a simple model from which important policy recommendations follow from the noncooperative interaction between criminals and the rest of society.

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  • Estrada, Javier, 1994. "Crime and punishment: An introductory analysis in a noncooperative framework," UC3M Working papers. Economics 2912, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía.
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