THE STUDY OF THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF CRIME

To have a good society, its safety should be restored and any social abnormality threatening the safety should be eliminated. To fight against these problems, it should be considered that most of the causes of crimes are hidden in the society, not the criminals. The present study aimed to evaluate the crime with an economic approach. Thus, crime is divided into four classifications of murder, robbery, maim and children crimes. Then, the key economic-social variables as Gini coefficient, income per capita, unemployment rate, divorce, urbanization and the number of the well-being organization services entered crime model as dependent variables. The applied data (1984-2010) were considered annually and Engle–Granger model was used to estimate the various crime models. The results showed that urbanization growth is one of the most important factors of crime in three groups of murder, robbery and maim. The per capita income in three groups of murder, robbery and children crimes is one of the effective factors of crime. Unemployment rate is only effective significantly in the crimes of robbery and maim. The important point in wellbeing services is that this organization was unsuccessful in the effect on crime in Iran.

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