Enhancing Police Efficiency in Detecting Crime in Hong Kong.
In this study we examine how the process of crime detection by frontline and investigative police can be modified so that the same level of policing inputs (i.e. police strength) can produce more outcomes (i.e. crime detection rate). A pooled frontier analysis method is used to measure the relative...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 321 - 356 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2022
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