Research Article

Mathematical Model for Crimes in Developing Countries with Some Control Strategies

Table 1

Description of state variables and parameters in the crime model.

State variablesDescriptions
Unemployed individuals
Individuals who are exposed to crime/criminal activities
Active criminals
Individuals who receive vocational training
Employed population

ParametersDescriptions
Recruitment rate to unemployment class
Rate at which individual exists from a population (migration and death)
Transmission rate
Rate of interaction/contact rate
Probability at which every contact leads to criminality behavior
Rate at which criminals cause unemployment
Rate at which unemployed individuals join exposed class
Rate death due to criminal behavior
Efficacy rate (factor prevents individual from being a criminal)
Rate of criminals joining vocational training after rehabilitation
Rate of unemployed individuals getting a job
Rate in which criminals get job after rehabilitation
Rate of skilled individual getting employed
Rate of unemployed individual joining vocational training