This paper extends the law enforcement model to include court congestion. Society suffers harm from court congestion since delay affects the credibility and the reliability of the criminal justice system. The core result of the paper is that the probability of apprehension and the probability of...

The recent reform of the ?judicial map? in France has drastically reduced the number of courts raising fears of a decline in access to justice. In this paper, we focus on the link between the number of courts and the volume of litigation. This paper addresses this issue with a litigation model...