Characteristic Analysis of Judgment Debtors Based on Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Clustering Method

In most law enforcement cases, judgment debtors have behaviors of evading execution in China, which seriously affects the authority of legal judgments and the judiciary’s credibility. Characteristics analysis of judgment debtors plays a vital role in finding out the concealed property and improving efficiency in handling law enforcement cases. Considering the advantages of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs) representing the judgment debtors’ attributes and keeping all the original evaluation information on judgment debtors, we develop a hesitant fuzzy linguistic agglomerative hierarchical clustering (HFL-AHC) method to cluster judgment debtors and analyze the main characteristic of judgment debtors with concealing property. In some situations, the existing HFLTS distance cannot divide the judgment debtors. Therefore, we propose some new distance measures to classify the judgment debtors. The clustering results show that the judgment debtors who hide property have a poor evaluation of trading behavior, work, credibility, and consumption behavior.