Local Drug Markets' Response to Focused Police Enforcement

Jonathan P. Caulkins
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Jonathan P. Caulkins: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Operations Research, 1993, vol. 41, issue 5, 848-863

Abstract: This paper introduces a model that describes how local drug markets might respond to intensive local enforcement operations known as crackdowns. The model supports the intuition of some drug policy analysts and makes concrete suggestions for how crackdowns should be managed.

Keywords: economics: markets for illicit drugs; judicial/legal: drug policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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