The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim

The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim

Crime has become a major phenomenon across the world. Several studies found that macroeconomic variables were related with the occurrence of violent crime. This study attempts to examine the relationship between economic indicators, which is represented by, unemployment, GDP per capita and populatio...

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Main Author: Abd Rahim, Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Crime
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/37579/1/37579.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.375792020-11-24T07:58:10Z The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim 2016-07 Abd Rahim, Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Crime Victims of crimes. Victimology. Fear of crime Commercial crimes. Financial crimes. White collar crimes Crime has become a major phenomenon across the world. Several studies found that macroeconomic variables were related with the occurrence of violent crime. This study attempts to examine the relationship between economic indicators, which is represented by, unemployment, GDP per capita and population density, towards violent crime. Data from the period of 1985 to 2014 have been collected. SPSS program was used for this study to analyze the model suggested. This study reveals that there is a significant relationship for unemployment and population density towards violent crime in Malaysia. In contrast, GDP per capita has no significant relationship towards violent crime in Malaysia. It was found that the violent crime is expected to increase for every one unit increase in unemployment and population density. This study also highlighted recommendation to the policy maker and potential subsequent researcher. 2016-07 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/37579/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/37579/1/37579.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan Faculty of Business and Management Ya, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohamad Safri
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Abd Rahim, Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan
The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
description Crime has become a major phenomenon across the world. Several studies found that macroeconomic variables were related with the occurrence of violent crime. This study attempts to examine the relationship between economic indicators, which is represented by, unemployment, GDP per capita and population density, towards violent crime. Data from the period of 1985 to 2014 have been collected. SPSS program was used for this study to analyze the model suggested. This study reveals that there is a significant relationship for unemployment and population density towards violent crime in Malaysia. In contrast, GDP per capita has no significant relationship towards violent crime in Malaysia. It was found that the violent crime is expected to increase for every one unit increase in unemployment and population density. This study also highlighted recommendation to the policy maker and potential subsequent researcher.
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author Abd Rahim, Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan
author_facet Abd Rahim, Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan
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title The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
title_short The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
title_full The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
title_fullStr The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
title_full_unstemmed The dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in Malaysia / Muhammad Akmal Ridzuan Abd Rahim
title_sort dependencies of economic indicators towards violent crime: a case study in malaysia / muhammad akmal ridzuan abd rahim
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Kelantan
granting_department Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate 2016
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