Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Hooliganism is on the rise and different countries use different strategies to combat it. We introduce a model where … hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an … increase in discriminative policing, provided by intelligence units, for example, always reduces violence. Under the right …