Does a complex environment affect police efficiency: an examination on municipal police in Mexico. Issue 14 (15th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alda, Erik; Giménez, Victor; Prior, Diego
• Is Part Of: Applied economics letters. Volume 27:Issue 14(2020)
• Page Start: 1220
• Page End: 1223
• Publication Date: 2020-08-15
• Subjects: Police efficiency -- Mexico -- environmental factors -- conditional order-m; C67 -- C14 -- C61; Economics -- Periodicals; Economics, Mathematical -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1676378
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-4851

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Research on police organizations argues that the external environment in which they operate have a negative effect on their performance. We tested these assumptions on a sample of 1, 634 municipal police forces in Mexico, We used a conditional order-m model to examine how the environment in which police operate affects their performance. Our results indicate that not all socioeconomic, demographic and institutional factors have a negative influence on police performance.