A primarily algebraic technique for simulating social systems has been developed for combined use by engineers and lawyers and has been applied exten sively to studies of felony processing times in the criminal justice system of two counties in the State of Indiana. As a method of non-Monte-Carlo simulation, the present approach overcomes tradi tional impediments such as determination of loops and multiple-function concatenation. preliminary evidence suggests that the simulator has useful capabilities in initial screening of data and in early qualitative studies of systems in which a priori data is not plentiful .
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