PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO – ECONOMIC CAUSES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR IN PAKISTAN: A CASE STUDY OF DISTRICT BAHAWALNAGAR

Kiran Aslam, Kashif Raza and Numan Ijaz ()
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Numan Ijaz: The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan Bahawalnagar Campus.

Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 3, issue 2, p:100-113

Abstract: Crime is a social evil for Global world in all facets. Crime is always considered as a social malevolent that is strictly related to individuals’ economic, psychological and social background .The first empirical study investigated by Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) on the relationship between crime and other socio-economic factors. This study mainly focuses on the multiple psychological and socio-economic factors such as, peer relations, inherited influence (negative risk averse attitude), broken families or family disputes, unemployment, level of education, age, locality of residence, family income, marital status and family size, which influences criminal activities in Bahawalnagar district, Pakistan. This study decays time series and cross sectional descriptive analysis for Crime investigation for a particular region. The findings pay attentions on multiple factors of crime in order to analyze the crime rate and helpful in policy formulation of law enforcement agencies of Pakistan.

Keywords: Age; Education; Family System; Unemployment; Family size; Crime; Socio-economic factors. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 B21 C13 C35 C83 D12 J19 J64 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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