Rwanda's involvement in Eastern DRC: A criminal real options approach.
This paper applies an alternative model to analyze criminal behaviour by countries based on real option models. Criminal options incorporate a richer framework than traditional cost-benefit models and allow examining the optimal timing of a crime as criminals have the possibility but not the obligat...
| Publicado en: | Crime, Law & Social Change Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 39 - 63 |
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