Juvenile Delinquency Model
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globals [ direct-control-parents direct-control-police community-unemployment community-norm domestic-violence-rate ;; this replaces "family disruption" school-violence school-involvement government-initial-income ;; ticks will affect this part government-total-income funding-apply-rate ;; this is decided by investment-method on the interface business-index ;; how thriving this area is total-number-of-crimes ;; counter, totally ] patches-own [ personal-stress personal-stress-base self-control propensity-to-aggression ;; genetic exposure-to-delinquent-peers exposure-to-delinquent-peers-base ;; base attachment-to-parents attachment-to-parents-base ;; base family-income personal-goal personal-goal-base ;; personal relations-with-peers relations-with-peers-base ;; base personal-belief personal-belief-base ;; genetic delinquent-likelihood ] to setup clear-all check-user-input setup-enviornment-variables setup-patches reset-ticks end to-report total-proportion let result proportion-of-family-subsidy + proportion-of-police-control + proportion-of-small-medium-business + proportion-of-educational-programs ifelse result > 1 [ user-message "can't be larger than 1" ] [ report result ] end to check-user-input if proportion-of-family-subsidy + proportion-of-police-control + proportion-of-small-medium-business + proportion-of-educational-programs > 1 [ error "can't be larger than 1" ] end to setup-enviornment-variables set government-initial-income 10 set government-total-income government-initial-income + additional-funding set community-unemployment 21 ;; NJ.com income less than $20,000 employment rate 21% set domestic-violence-rate 23 ;; 23% women receiving food welfare was abused in the past 12 months - page 4 http://www.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/BCS15_BP.pdf set school-violence 30 ;;not sure about this set school-involvement 10 ;;not sure set direct-control-parents 10 ;; made up number set direct-control-police 20 ;; made up number (Think about "Charlestown" in the movie "The Town") if investment-method = "aggressive" [set funding-apply-rate [0.1 0.5 0.2 0.2] ] ;; Q1 -> 1, Q2 -> 2, Q3 -> 3, Q4 -> 0 if investment-method = "smooth" [set funding-apply-rate [0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25] ] if investment-method = "delayed" [set funding-apply-rate [0.5 0.1 0.2 0.2] ] if community-attitude = "Positive" [ set community-norm 70 ] if community-attitude = "Neutral" [ set community-norm 50 ] if community-attitude = "Negative" [ set community-norm 30 ] if community-attitude = "Extremely Negative" [ set community-norm 10 ] set business-index 5 end to setup-patches foreach n-values 15 [?] [ let $x ? - 7 foreach n-values 15 [?] ;;this is y variable [ let $y ? - 7 ;; this is the initiation of all patches ;;set up individual value ask patch $x $y [ set self-control 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;;only self-control is genetic (all in 100) set family-income 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;; 10-30 are low income, 30-60 medium, 60-90 high, 100 wealthy $13,000 is the wage for McDonald's worker set personal-goal-base 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;; different people have different dreams set personal-belief-base 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 set personal-stress-base direct-control-parents * 0.1 + domestic-violence-rate * 0.5 + school-violence * 0.6 set attachment-to-parents-base 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;; random attachment to parents set relations-with-peers-base 20 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 set exposure-to-delinquent-peers-base 50 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 set propensity-to-aggression 30 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;; genetic ] ] ] end to go if ticks >= 40 [ stop ] ;; stop after 40 quaters (10 years) first-iteration ;;affects all Enviornmental factors patch-iteration ;;affects all agent attributes (patch) tick end to first-iteration set direct-control-parents direct-control-parents + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-family-subsidy * 0.1 + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-small-medium-business * 0.1 set domestic-violence-rate domestic-violence-rate + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-family-subsidy * -0.2 set school-involvement school-involvement + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-family-subsidy * 0.1 + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-educational-programs * 0.5 set direct-control-police direct-control-police + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-police-control * 0.5 set school-violence school-violence + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-police-control * -0.15 + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-educational-programs * -0.1 set community-unemployment community-unemployment + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-small-medium-business * -0.1 set community-norm community-norm + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-educational-programs * 0.2 ;; this should also be tied to deliquent rate, direct-police control set business-index business-index + item remainder ticks 4 funding-apply-rate * government-total-income * proportion-of-small-medium-business * 0.15 end to patch-iteration foreach n-values 15 [?] [ let $x ? - 7 foreach n-values 15 [?] ;;this is y variable [ let $y ? - 7 ;; this is the random initiation of all patches ;; color range from lowest blue 105 to 109, then to magenta 129 to 125 (red 15 flash means crime) ;;set up individual value ask patch $x $y [ ;; these two are not very certain, adjust them if you must set personal-stress personal-stress-base + direct-control-parents * 0.1 + domestic-violence-rate * 0.5 + school-violence * 0.6 + 10 * abs random-normal 0 50 / 100 ;; plus random events set exposure-to-delinquent-peers exposure-to-delinquent-peers-base + direct-control-parents * -0.25 + direct-control-police * -0.25 + school-violence * 0.5 set family-income family-income + business-index / 50 + random-normal 0 1 * business-index ;; first part base, second part adjust the base set personal-goal personal-goal-base + community-unemployment * 0.15 + school-involvement * 0.1 set attachment-to-parents attachment-to-parents-base + domestic-violence-rate * -0.23 set relations-with-peers relations-with-peers-base - school-violence * 0.3 + school-involvement * 0.2 set personal-belief personal-belief-base + community-norm * 0.25 set delinquent-likelihood propensity-to-aggression * 0.5 + personal-stress * 0.23 - self-control * 0.165 + exposure-to-delinquent-peers * 0.556 - attachment-to-parents * 0.155 - family-income * 0.009 - personal-goal * 0.1 - relations-with-peers * 0.165 - personal-goal * 0.08 ;; set up patch color dependent on the delinquent-likelihood set pcolor scale-color blue delinquent-likelihood 100 0 ;; this should be the right way to do it if delinquent-likelihood > 0 [ let crime-dice random delinquent-likelihood if crime-dice >= 35 [ set pcolor 15 set total-number-of-crimes total-number-of-crimes + 1 ] ] ] ] ] end
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