Research Article

Contagious Criminal Career Models Showing Backward Bifurcations: Implications for Crime Control Policies

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For , , and . The other parameters’ values are given in Table 3. Profile of the population of reoffenders (). (a) If the recidivism is low (or small), then the equilibrium point is locally asymptotically stable; (b) if the recidivism is higher (or large), then the equilibrium point is locally asymptotically stable.
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