Low Priority Laws and the Allocation of Police Resources
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Keywords
Police Resource Allocation; Police Incentives; Drug Policy; Low Priority Laws;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
- R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2014-07-13 (Law and Economics)
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