The Nexus among Unemployment, Poverty and Crime in Contemporary Nigeria

Christiana Ebobo Urowoli, Toju Akujobi Alero
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Unemployment and poverty have been the major causes of crime in developing countries, Nigeria inclusive. The main objective of this paper was to show the connections among unemployment, poverty and crime in Nigeria. It also examined unemployment and poverty rates in Nigeria. The research design adopted for this paper is cross-sectional and explanatory. The paper adopted conceptual framework to show the nexus among the concepts. It used secondary sources of data collection and data analysis was based on content analysis. The study revealed that there is a strong link between unemployment, poverty and crime in Nigeria. The relationship among the concepts is bi-directional. Unemployment has adverse effect on poverty and crime rate. So also poverty negatively affects unemployment and crime rates. Increase in crime rates leads to increase in unemployment and poverty. The paper therefore recommended amongst others that the rate of unemployment must reduce if poverty and crime must reduce. Also the rate of unemployment can be reduced through provision of jobs which will consequently reduce the rate of poverty and also make crime unattractive on the long run.
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当代尼日利亚失业、贫困和犯罪之间的关系
失业和贫困一直是包括尼日利亚在内的发展中国家犯罪的主要原因。本文的主要目的是展示尼日利亚失业、贫困和犯罪之间的联系。它还调查了尼日利亚的失业率和贫困率。本文采用的研究设计是横断面和解释性的。本文采用概念框架来显示概念之间的联系。它使用了二手来源的数据收集和数据分析是基于内容分析。该研究显示,在尼日利亚,失业、贫困和犯罪之间存在着密切的联系。概念之间的关系是双向的。失业对贫困和犯罪率有不利影响。贫困也会对失业率和犯罪率产生负面影响。犯罪率的上升导致失业和贫困的增加。因此,该文件除其他外建议,如果必须减少贫穷和犯罪,就必须降低失业率。此外,失业率可以通过提供就业机会来降低,从而降低贫困率,从长远来看也会使犯罪变得没有吸引力。
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