According to socioeconomic theories of criminal behavior, crime rates can be reduced by increasing the probability and severity of punishment. In this line, the public force and the judicial sector play an important role depending on their performance. This document analyzes this performance for each department of Colombia in 2018. Using the technique of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the study found that police and judicial efficiency must be balanced, since in most cases, if a department has an acceptable police efficiency, it has a bad judicial efficiency performance or vice versa. At large, police efficiency had better performance than judicial efficiency in Colombia.
El crimen es un fenómeno social altamente complejo. Si bien para su comprensión se ha hecho necesario el abordaje desde diversas ciencias dada su multidimensionalidad, el enfoque ortodoxo sigue siendo una de las mejores aproximaciones al explicar el comportamiento promedio del mismo.El presente artículo tiene como fin caracterizar la oferta criminal de Colombia y sus departamentos para contribuir a una mejor comprensión. Para ello, se vale del análisis estadístico descriptivo y geoespacial de las principales variables que rodean el delito desde la teoría clásica de la economía del crimen y sus más recientes aplicaciones. Los resultados sugieren que el crimen y su comportamiento no solo ha mutado en los últimos años, sino que no es homogéneo en todo el territorio dadas las diversas condiciones de los mismos.
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