Crime and Police Personnel in Malaysia: An Empirical Investigation

Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Hamid, Baharom Abdul; Muhamad, Suriyani

doi:10.7603/s40932-014-0004-x

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“…Various researchers have defined crime in different perspectives. Habibullah, Baharom, & Tan (2013) defined crime as the violation of property rights. Most suitable definition of crime is given by Tenibiaje (2010) which states that "deviant behaviour that violates prevailing norms, which may be cultural, social, political, psychological and economic conditions".…”

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Human Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice: A Study of Urban Crime

Elis¹,

Liu²

2018

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Urban areas are known by their facilities and enhanced opportunities of living and employment. With the availing all the facilities, many serious issues have emerged due to urbanization in developing countries. The most highlighted problems include security and crime in urban areas in developing countries. This paper is aimed to focus on the urban crime, the reasons behind the crime happened, the major indicators of crimes and what is the city response and what policy should be developed by police and society. To achieve the objective of this research secondary data was used. With the help of literature crime indicators were explored and explained well in this research. Eight countries were analyzed with the help of literature to check the overall crime situation there. Crime in those all eight countries was low to high level. It is in alarming in some areas of Africa and other developing countries. Study showed crime is increasing from last three years which is high. In any society urban crime prevails it created unsafe environment, threaten to lives, threaten to belonging and has impact on life quality and economy of the country. Law force agencies must be empowered and well equipped to control the situation. It's government responsibilities to create employment opportunities for youth so that they cannot engage into illegal activities.

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Human Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice: A Study of Urban Crime

Elis¹,

Liu²

2018

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“…Crime was mentioned by [3] as a 'deviant behavior in which it has violates existing norms, which might be political, psychological, cultural, social, and also economic circumstances. However, Habibullah et al [4] described crime as a breach of 'property rights' whereby the objective was on property crime. It does not provide a detailed picture of crime; thus, there are also other ways in which crimes occur.…”

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“…Second, violent crime usually involving gun offences, is fairly common and important in situations where there is murder, attempted murder, gang robbery with and without a firearm, firearm robbery, robbery without a firearm, rape and, lastly, voluntary injury. Some researchers have categorized crime as violent and property crimes [4], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. Based on the statistics provided by Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) 2020, the crime index ratio being recorded are rise.…”

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Crime index trends and patterns in Kelantan

Muhamad

Yusof

Misiran

2021

DAAM

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Crimes are a social nuisance and has become major anxiousness to the society where it involves the safety of the people in a country. This paper provides crime index overview in Kelantan from 2017 to 2019 that consists of both violent crimes and property crimes. The violent crimes involve murder, rape, robbery and voluntarily injury cases. Meanwhile, property crimes include house break-in theft, vehicles theft and other theft (pickpocketing, snatch theft and etc.). The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between age, gender, ethnic and district with the crime index. In addition, the objective is to identify and get better understanding of the most common crime index and also to identify which area has the highest crime index in Kelantan. A total of 5,569 cases were reported within this three-year period and the data were collected from Kelantan Contingent Police Headquarters. The descriptive analysis, spearman’ rho correlation and multiple regression analysis were performed, and the findings were then illustrated via graphs and tables. The major results have shown that Kota Bharu has the highest crime index and age, gender and district has significant relationship with crime index.

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“…Although the economics of crime literature could be traced back from Becker (1968), it is a relatively new field in Malaysian context and was only explored in Meera (1993). The analysis of economics of crime started in 1995 and limited to the understanding of macroeconomic variables as motivation to crime (see, for example, Habibullah & Baharom 2009;Baharom & Habibullah 2009;Hamzah & Lau 2011;Habibullah et al 2014aHabibullah et al , 2014bMeera & Jayakumar 1995;Tang 2009;Tang 2011). In Habibullah et al (2016), they made a fresh attempt in analysing the relationship between good governance and crime rates in Malaysia.…”

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The Economic of Deterrence: A Wrong Policy or A Misplaced Strategy?

2019

JEM

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This paper investigates the impact of economics conditions and deterrence variables on disaggregated crime data in Sarawak, using yearly time-series data spanning more than 40 years using a vector error correction estimates. It is proven that economic variables studied serve as motivation of crime in Sarawak and imprisonment does not deter crime in the time period studied. It is evident that imprisonment in the case of Sarawak is less influential in deterring crime or the society were ill informed of the severity of punishment. While the study established a long-run relationship between economics and crime, it is also a noble approach in understanding deterrence in the context of Sarawak. Both economics and deterrence variables are important in explaining the decline in crime and in formulating efficient strategy and policies to combat crime. Government should shift the focus of increasing number of police force to increasing awareness on severity of punishments. At the same time, increasing opportunity for legal jobs would be important to deter crime.

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Crime and Police Personnel in Malaysia: An Empirical Investigation

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

Human Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice: A Study of Urban Crime

Human Rights in the Context of Criminal Justice: A Study of Urban Crime

Crime index trends and patterns in Kelantan

The Economic of Deterrence: A Wrong Policy or A Misplaced Strategy?

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