Research Article
Contagious Criminal Career Models Showing Backward Bifurcations: Implications for Crime Control Policies
Table 2
Models parameters and their biological meaning.
| Parameters | Description |
| | Rate of recruitment of individuals into the core group | | Basic flow to the criminality () (criminal propensity) | | Rate of cooptation of first-time ex-offenders (contact rate between and ) | | Rate of cooptation of second-time ex-offenders (contact rate between and ) | | Rate of early desistance from crime | | Rate of desistance from crime when in the first cycle | | Rate of desistance from crime when in at least the second cycle | | Natural inmate mortality rate | | Additional inmate mortality rate when in | | Additional inmate mortality rate when in | | Release rate from incarceration of first-time offenders | | Release rate from incarceration of at least second-time offenders |
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