Efficiency in Crime Prevention: A Study of Lisbon's Police Precincts

Carlos Barros

International Review of Applied Economics, 2007, vol. 21, issue 5, 687-697

Abstract: This article analyses the technical efficiency of Lisbon's police precincts by evaluating their relative performance. It starts from the assumption that there is time-varying efficiency and uses a stochastic cost-frontier model to generate efficiency scores. Indeed, this efficiency model is thoroughly investigated. However, the results are found to be at best mixed, because the model reveals low efficiency and time-unvarying scores. To increase efficiency, this article advocates an improvement of top management procedures, based on a governance-environment framework.

Keywords: Efficiency; police forces; Cobb-Douglas model; Lisbon precincts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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