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The Influence Of Poverty On Crime
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1.7 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
study covered Owerri District of Western Nigeria which is one of the
most poverty stricken areas resulting to violent crime, crimes against
humanity and gross violation.
The study was limited to assess or establish the relationship between poverty and crime amongst
240,0 inhabitants of Owerri and its implication on the economic development within the region.
The
study bases its guidelines on Malthusian theory of population to state
the rationale on scarce resources leading to youth bulge and violence
and conflict theory to explain crime and its effects in the study area.
Since it was a wide area the findings were sampled from two major
Divisions Owerri and Luanda.
1.8 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Information
from this study will be used by Governmental Departments i.e.
Constituency Development Fund (CDF), Youth Fund, District Budgetary
allocations, Education Offices, Provincial Administration and
Non-Governmental Organizations to make right decisions to empower the
economic status of the area to alleviate poverty and violent crimes as
well as gross violation of human rights. The Ministry of Planning and
National Development, Ministry of finance, The Office of the President
and Provincial Administration to promote food security, health and
sanitation services, investment and cur b violent crimes in the region.
The study will be useful in investigating and establishing factors
leading to poverty and how to curb them through the recommendations of
the study in accordance to Malthusian’s population Theory on Fundamental
Human rights and conflicting theory on crime issues. The findings of
this study will enable to put down factors leading to poverty and come
up with strategic plans to help reduce it engage the entire population
towards positive economic development of the area.
1.9 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Poverty:
The vicious cycle of poverty has been defined as the phenomenon where
poor families become trapped in poverty for at least three generations.
The families have either limited resources or no resources. The concept
of the vicious cycle of poverty holds that low productivity leads to low
income, low income leads to low savings and low savings leads to low
investment and low investment to low productivity.
Crime- A crime is a
violation of criminal statutory law and a specific punishment applied
by some government authority generally accompanies the violation.
Criminal activities and crime rates vary in different legal
jurisdictions which accompany differences in rates of enforcement.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The purpose of the study was to establish the significant relationship between poverty and crime in Owerri district of Western Province of Nigeria. The objective of the study was to investigate the influence of poverty on crime amongst the residents of Owerri District in Western Province. The research design for the study was survey research design in which 5 point likert scale questionnaire on poverty and crime was used study to collect data from the respondents. The sample for the study consis ... Continue reading---
