Recidivism and rehabilitation of criminal offenders: a carrot and stick evolutionary game.

Motivated by recent efforts by the criminal justice system to treat and rehabilitate nonviolent offenders rather than focusing solely on their punishment, we introduce an evolutionary game theoretic model to study the effects of "carrot and stick" intervention programs on criminal recidivi...

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Main Authors: Bijan Berenji, Tom Chou, Maria R D'Orsogna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3894186?pdf=render