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The Economic Determinants of Crime Rate in 7 Selected Countries: A Panel Data Analysis Approach

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  • Noorishah Binti Shafiq
  • Dayang Haszelinna Abang Ali

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As the statistic of crime rates has become the main concern in any parts of the world, criminologists and policymakers have focused much in preventing crime rates from rocketing. This is where the economics of crime was generated. Thus, this study employs annual panel data from 2000 to 2013 to investigate the economic determinants of crime rate in 7 selected countries. The 7 selected countries are Honduras, Venezuela, El-Salvador, Jamaica, South Africa, Colombia and Bahamas. The methodologies used included panel unit root, panel cointegration, panel granger causality and Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS). The result shows that all the variables are stationary at the first difference and are cointegrated in the long run. From panel granger causality test, there are three short run granger causality relationship exist that run from number of tourist arrivals to GDP per capita, from GDP per capita to unemployment rate and from unemployment rate to crime rate. In addition, the result of DOLS shows that there is a long run and positive relationship between unemployment rate and crime rate. Therefore, the government and the related agencies around the world need to cooperate with one another in providing or designing the best policy in reducing crime, especially in the case of homicide.

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  • Noorishah Binti Shafiq & Dayang Haszelinna Abang Ali, 2022. "The Economic Determinants of Crime Rate in 7 Selected Countries: A Panel Data Analysis Approach," Asian Journal of Empirical Research, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 12(1), pages 44-53.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ajoerj:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:44-53:id:4439
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    1. Aldenis Vásquez & Rafael Alvarado & Brayan Tillaguango & Cem Işık & Muntasir Murshed, 2023. "Impact of Social and Institutional Indicators on the Homicide Rate in Ecuador: An Analysis Using Advanced Time Series Techniques," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 169(1), pages 1-22, September.
    2. Muhammad Shahid & Khalil Ahmad & Muhammad Amir Inayat & Muhammad Kashif Bhatti, 2024. "Socio-Economic Determinants of Property Crime Across the Districts of Punjab: Highlighting the Role of Law Enforcement Agencies of Pakistan," Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 13(2), pages 22-36.

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