A Multiagent Method Applied to the Economic Analysis of Criminal Law DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18836/2178-0587/ealr.v1n1p165-178

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have made possible to develop computational methods to study social phenomena. This research work develops an agent-based model to study the emergent properties resulting from public enforcement of criminal law. In order to build a model of criminal behavio...

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Autores: Berger, Luiz Marcelo, Borenstein, Denis, Balbinotto Neto, Giacomo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Católica de Brasília (UCB)
Repositorio:Economic Analysis of law Review
Idioma:inglés
portugués
español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.portalrevistas.ucb.br:article/1469
Acceso en línea:https://portalrevistas.ucb.br/index.php/EALR/article/view/1469
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Agent-based models. Multiagent systems. Economic analysis of law.
Modelo Baseado em Agente. Sistemas Multiagentes. Análise Econômica do Direito.
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Sumario:Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have made possible to develop computational methods to study social phenomena. This research work develops an agent-based model to study the emergent properties resulting from public enforcement of criminal law. In order to build a model of criminal behavior suitable to the Project, the economic analysis of crime is used as the basic framework, most specially Becker’s (1968) seminal work, but also Shavell and Polinsky (2000), Shavell (2004), Cohen and Felson (1979) and Clarke (1995) frameworks. The model was implemented using NetLogo 3.1.4, a multiagent software platform (Wilensky, 1999). The resulting simulation program provides a wide range of dynamic options making it easy to perform numerous tests.