Iglesias, J.R.; Semeshenko, V.; Schneider, E.M.; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 391 (2012) 15, pp. 3942-3950
Crime is the result of a rational distinctive balance between the benefits and costs of an illegal act. This idea was proposed by Becker more than forty years ago (Becker (1968) [1]). In this paper, we simulate a simple artificial society, in which agents earn fixed wages and can augment (or...