Gustav Feichtinger, 
Institute for Mathematical Methods in Economics, TU Wien 

Dynamics and Control of "Deviant" Behavior

First, a brief survey on applications of optimal control models and 
nonlinear dynamical systems in the economics of 'deviant' behavior is 
given (corruption, addiction, vieolence, terrorism, extortion). The 
initiation of criminal behavior (as well as of other 'deviations') is 
inherently influenced by social interactions implying that individual 
propensities depend on the size and the structure of reference groups. A 
crucial consequence of this paradigm are intrinsic nonlinearities 
governing the dynamics of the processes. The purpose of the presentation 
is to deliver an optimal control approach including such spillover or 
external effects.