TY  - JOUR
T1  - Socio-Economic Determinants of Crime in Nigeria
AU - , Douglason G. Omotor 
JO  - Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 54
EP  - 59
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1683-8831
DO  - pjssci.2009.54.59
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=pjssci.2009.54.59
KW  - Causality
KW  -cointegration
KW  -crime
KW  -error-correction
KW  -unemployment
KW  -Nigeria
AB  - The study estimates the dynamics of socio-economic determinants of crime in Nigeria from 1981-2005 using an error-correction model. The exclusive socio-economic determinants are population, literacy, unemployment, inflation and income. The study analysed the long-run causality between security or crime and discomfort applying the error-correction based, Granger causality technique and dynamic error-correction method. The results revealed that unemployment is the most important determinant of crime in Nigeria. The evidence that insecurity Granger causes discomfort is also established.
ER  -