A research study of Secondary Causes of Crimes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Abstract

Crimes are limited to the key principles of a Society as well as the law enforced. Hence crimes in the different societies may vary and similarly its causes too. Although the root causes of crimes are mostly common among the different societies, but when we try to explore the causes of crimes in a specific society, then we come across different branches of basic causes, which definitely effect the abnormalities of crimes rate in that specific area. This is a quantitative research which is designed to investigate the secondary causes of crimes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The study covers the period for 2011-2020. In this regard, the reported crimes cases in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were collected from the respective Govt. Department(s), which were thereafter reorganized and categorized into six major classes i.e. Murder, Hurt, Rape, Theft, Robbery and Kidnapping, while rest of the cases were placed in the category of miscellaneous or other crimes.