Psychological and Socio Economic Causes of Criminal Behavior in Pakistan: A Case Study of District Bahawalnagar

Abstract

Crime is a social evil for the global world in all facets. Crime is always considered a social malevolence that is strictly related to individuals’ economic, psychological, and social backgrounds. The first empirical study investigated by Becker (1968) and Ehrlich (1973) on the relationship between crime and other socio-economic factors. This study mainly focuses on the multiple psychological and socio-economic factors, such as peer relations, inherited influence (negative risk-averse attitude), broken families or family disputes, unemployment, level of education, age, locality of residence, family income, marital status, and family size, which influence criminal activities in the Bahawalnagar district, Pakistan. This study decays time series and cross-sectional descriptive analysis for crime investigation for a particular region. The findings pay attention to multiple factors of crime in order to analyze the crime rate and are helpful in policy formulation for law enforcement agencies of Pakistan.