Socio-economic Determinants of Crime: An Empirical Study of Pakistan

Awais Anwar, Noman Arshed and Sofia Anwar
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Awais Anwar: Department of Economics, Center of Economic and Research, Shandong University Jinan, China,
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International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 2017, vol. 7, issue 1, 312-322

Abstract: The objective of present study is to empirically examine the socio-economic determinants of crime in Pakistan. The analysis is carried out by using the annual time series data for the period 1973-2014. The dependent variable is total crime rate (per one million population), While the explanatory variables are unemployment, education, income inequality, per capita income, and deterrence variable. The study estimates, the long-run and short-run elasticities of supply of offense function by using autoregressive distributed lag model approach.

Keywords: Deterrence; Time Series; Crime Rate; Property Crime; Violent Crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 N3 P46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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