Assessing the relationship between employment opportunities and criminal tendencies of educated youth

Bhargavi Deshpande; Sarita Goswami; Sushim Shukla

doi:10.31893/multiscience.2023ss0214

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This research examines the hypothesis that criminal activity has increased behavior among knowledgeable young people in Lagos state, Nigeria, in response to the unequal employment opportunities in the public sector. The tool that was used for the purpose of data collection was the questionnaire. Through the use of techniques including simple random sampling and sophisticated sampling, 1900 individuals overall and four geographical regions were selected accordingly. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences analyzed the acquired data. According to the study, uneven access to work prospects is a key factor contributing to the rise in juvenile delinquency in Lagos. The study's findings indicate that the disparity in hiring practices for open positions in the broader public sector is the cause of the rise in criminal activity among educated Nigerians in Lagos. Consequently, the report recommends that the hiring process in various government entities follows legal procedures and that a supportive business climate that promotes small and medium-sized firms be created.
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Deshpande, B., Goswami, S., & Shukla, S. (2023). Assessing the relationship between employment opportunities and criminal tendencies of educated youth. Multidisciplinary Science Journal, 5, 2023ss0214. https://doi.org/10.31893/multiscience.2023ss0214

[1] Bennett P, Ouazad A (2020) Job displacement, unemployment, and crime: Evidence from danish microdata and reforms. Journal of the European Economic Association 18:2182-2220.

[2] Britto DG, Pinotti P, Sampaio B (2022) The effect of job loss and unemployment insurance on crime in Brazil. Econometrica 90:1393-1423.

[3] Cameron C, Hollingworth K, Schoon I, van Santen E, Schröer W, Ristikari T, Heino T, Pekkarinen E (2018) Care leavers in early adulthood: How do they fare in Britain, Finland and Germany?. Children and Youth Services Review 87:163-172.

[4] Carter A (2019) The consequences of adolescent delinquent behavior for adult employment outcomes. Journal of youth and adolescence 48:17-29. Hazra D (2020) What does (and does not) affect crime in India?. International Journal of Social Economics 47:503-521.

[5] Hullenaar KL, Kurpiel A, Ruback RB (2021) Youth violent offending in school and out: reporting, arrest, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Justice Quarterly 38:1319-1341.

[6] Javdani S (2019) Policing education: An empirical review of the challenges and impact of the work of school police officers. American journal of community psychology 63:253-269.

[7] Jawadi F, Mallick SK, Cheffou AI, Augustine A (2021) Does higher unemployment lead to greater criminality? Revisiting the debate over the business cycle. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 182:448-471.

[8] Kassem M, Ali A, Audi M (2019) Unemployment rate, population density and crime rate in Punjab (Pakistan): an empirical analysis. Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE) 8:92-104.

[9] Lee K (2018) Unemployment and crime: the role of apprehension. European Journal of Law and Economics 45:59-80.

[10] Mir Mohamad Tabar SA, Noghani M (2019) Unemployment and crime in developing countries: a meta-analysis in Iran. Crime, Law and Social Change 72:327-338.

[11] Parida JK (2023) Harnessing India’s demographic dividend. Higher Education, Employment, and Economic Development in India: Problems, Prospects, and Policies, pp 131.

[12] Steffensmeier D, Lu Y, Na C (2020) Age and crime in South Korea: Cross-national challenge to invariance thesis. Justice Quarterly 37:410-435.

[13] Wajim J (2020) Youth unemployment: the cause of ethnic conflict and criminal activities in Takum local government area of Taraba state Nigeria. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 7:5882-5890.

[14] Weaver VM, Papachristos A, Zanger-Tishler M (2019) The great decoupling: The disconnection between criminal offending and experience of arrest across two cohorts. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5:89-123.

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