Crime-poverty nexus: an intellectual survey

Abstract

The nexus between crime rates and poverty is overwhelming subject of forensic science and development economics that eager to know the causal mechanism between the two stated factors. The study conducted an intellectual survey from the academicians of higher education institutes and asked the number of open ended and closed ended questions about the subject matter. The study finds the numerous factors, including lack of education, unemployment, inequitable judicious income distribution, injustice, price hikes, inadequate health provision, etc., which are the main antecedents of crime-poverty nexus in Pakistan. The study confirmed the causality relationship moving in a both directions, i.e., poverty leads to crime and crime rate leads to poverty incidence in a country, however, the strong causation and largely supported respondents data support the poverty incidence leads to crime rate (i.e., weighted response: 330 respondents), while small causation supports the reverse causality (i.e., weighted response: 100 respondents) from a given survey. The results conclude that government reforms in the form of provision of social subsidies for poor and marginalized peoples are needed in order to reduce poverty incidence and combat crime rates in a country. .

Influence of state policy components on the rate of violence and crime against human life and health

“…At the same time, the literacy level and the ratio of women to men are drivers of the decrease in violence in India. Zaman (2018) and Zaman et al (2019) investigated the cause-and-effect relationship between a crime against human life and health and poverty levels. The lack of education, unemployment, unfair reasonable distribution of income, injustice, price increase, and insufficient healthcare are the main prerequisites for an increased rate of crimes against human life and health in Pakistan.…”