Optimal control of a community violence model: community violence treated as a contagious disease

Amine Alabkari, Khalid Adnaoui, Ahmed Kourrad, Abdelkarim Bennar

Abstract


Violence was, for a long time, misunderstood and misdiagnosed. This misdiagnosis led to ineffective and counterproductive treatments and control strategies. Recent advances in neuroscience and epidemiology show that violence is a contagious disease. In this paper, community violence is treated as an infection that spreads from person to person through victimization or through witnessing violence. A compartmental model is used for formulating the spread of cummunity violence as a system of differential equations. The distribution of treated individuals is considered as a control variable. Our objective is to characterize an optimal control (treatment) that minimizes the number of individuals who use violence and the cost associated with this treatment. A numerical simulation analysis is used to confirm the effectiveness of our control.

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Published: 2021-04-14

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Amine Alabkari, Khalid Adnaoui, Ahmed Kourrad, Abdelkarim Bennar, Optimal control of a community violence model: community violence treated as a contagious disease, Commun. Math. Biol. Neurosci., 2021 (2021), Article ID 34

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