The Impact Of Unemployment On Criminal Activities

The Impact Of Unemployment On Criminal Activities

Abstract

This exploration work is centered on the impact of severance on felonious conditioning in Niger Delta region of Nigeria using Cross River State as a case study. The study espoused the check exploration design. A aggregate of 450 exploration subjects were drawn from the target population using the stratified and arbitrary slice fashion. frequence counts, simple chance and ki-square styles were used to dissect the data and test the suppositions. Findings from the exploration showed that severance has a significant impact on felonious conditioning in Cross River State. It also revealed that poverty has a significant impact on felonious conditioning in Cross River State. The study thus recommended government’s intervention towards job creation to enable reduction in severance rate in the state which has eventual result in crime reduction.

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the Study

Crime is one major problem, and a burning issue in which every society particularly a developing bone is faced with. Nigeria as a developing country faces her own share of social, political, profitable and artistic problems at different regions which have in no small measure affected the well- being of the crowd. One major cause widely agreed is the rising or adding nature of severance.

It’s generally observed for utmost countries that severance and crime rates are appreciatively identified, but it’s much further unclear whether the relationship means that severance causes crime, crime causes severance, or other factors beget either or both. In other words, the sign of the correlation is clear but the direction of the reason is not. One direction of the reason, severance affects crime, has entered wide attention in the literature, but the rear bone has been largely neglected( Calro – Armengo and Yves Zenous, 2003).

The theoretical underpinning of the reason notion was developed some thirty times ago by Becker( 1968), Stigler( 1970) and Ehrlich( 1973) among others. In Ehrlich’s model, individualities divide their time between legal conditioning and parlous illegalactivities.However, the model predicts that crime will come more frequent, If legal income openings come scarce relative to capabilities earnings from crime. Increased severance could be similar factor.

Government the world over try to check crime rates and if possible, annihilate crime. also, severance, an profitable complaint, is a problem which government tries to reduce. It’s noteworthy that wherever there’s severance, especially at a high rate, there’s a tendency for crime rate to increase dramatically this is because people are fluently allured or impelled to felonious tendencies in the face of frustrations, poverty and loss of stopgap in earning a decent living( Egunjobi, 2003). According to Becker’s profitable proposition of crime, jobless people are deprived of legal income and therefore, they tend to decide some income from illegal conditioning. numerous models of crime suggest that the jobless and individualities with low stipend face strong appetite to commit crime.

The Niger Delta region particularly Cross River State is oppressively hit by felonious conditioning and severance despite the abundant mortal and natural coffers available in the region, a situation World Bank describes as severance in the midst of plenitude( World Bank, 1996). The rise in felonious conditioning among youths in the Niger Delta region has been fuelled by extreme poverty and underdevelopment, disgruntlement with the transnational oil painting companies, oil painting spillage, environmental damage and corruption by government officers which insure little development reaches the host communities. Severance on the other hand is apparent in the Niger Delta as Eboh( 2009) editorialized that over 60 of the youths in the region are jobless. The thoroughfares are littered with youth peddlers who naturally would have set up economic employment in some enterprises( Okafor, 2011).

It’s upon this background that this exploration work is intended to ask the following questions

To what extent does severance affect felonious conditioning in Niger Delta region particularly Cross River State?

How can the government reduce severance rate in the region with eventual reduction in felonious conditioning in the region?

How can the vast natural coffers of the Niger Delta region be managed to completely profit the communities.

Statement of the problem

The Niger Delta region which comprises seven countries; Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Rivers and Ondo, has a huge oil painting and gas deposits which presently quantum for further than 80 of the nation’s crude birth and further than 70 of profit to service the nation’s frugality. The region is blessed with vast and huge natural coffers which contribute to about 80 of the nation’s budget and about 70 of her GDP. Despite these huge capabilities, the region is littered with jobless youths as Eboh( 2009) states that about 60 of Niger Delta youths jobless.

In a shot to employing, controlling and exercising the coffers of the regions to benefits the aborigines, the youths, youthful grown-ups and indeed a good number of child have resolved to restive measures which have been apparent in political roughneck, illegal oil painting bunkering, arms business, hijacking , pirating, bellicosity and other social vices which are troubles to the stability of republic in Nigeria( Okafor, 2011).

The arm insurrection in the region traces its roots to a perceived sense of neglects by both oil painting companies and public government. Despite its strategic and profitable significance, mortal development indicators for the Niger Delta region are starkly behind public pars. likewise, the pollution performing from oil painting and gas prospecting have affected indigenous sources of livelihood like fishing and brought home complaint, malnutrition and high casualty rate beside serious environmental influence. Also, poverty remains aboriginal despite the billion flowing into the public resources. Poverty still exacts and ineluctable social risk, and for an impoverished people, crime is frequently and easy step from privation.

objects of the study

The main ideal of this study is to pierce the impact of severance on felonious conditioning in Cross River State.

Specific objects are

1) To examine the extent in which severance rate impact on felonious conditioning in Cross River State.

2) To pierce the relationship that exists between severance and poverty in Cross River State.

Exploration Hypotheses

In line with the stated objects, the following suppositions will be tested;

thesis one

H0 Severance has no significant impact on felonious conditioning in Cross River State.

suppositions two

H0 There’s no significant relationship between severance and poverty in Cross River State.

Significance of the study

This study is significant as it’ll take an in- depth analysis into the root causes of the Niger Delta extremity as it investigates colorful felonious conditioning and their effect on the region. The finding of the study will prove an sapience into what crimes are really committed on the region and also reveal what effect they’ve on the region. Also, this study will contribute in no small way to the literature in this area of study. Eventually, governments will through this work understand the introductory problems braking the growth of the region therefore, proffer possible results.

Compass of the Study

The study concentrates its disquisition on the Niger Delta region in probing the impact of severance on felonious conditioning in Cross River State. The delimitation is made so as to enable the experimenter concentrate the hunt light on Cross River State area of the Niger Delta region.

Description Of Terms

i) Crime Crime can be defined as an act that violate the law of the society or serious offence against the law of the society for which there’s severe discipline by law.

ii) Felonious Conditioning Felonious conditioning are appertained to as those conditioning that violate the law of the society and are punishable under the law.

iii) Sustainable Development This is described as that development that meets the requirements and bournes of the present generations without compromising the capability to meet the need of unborn generation.

iv) Youth Restiveness This is appertained to as the agitation by youth in the Niger Delta region.

v) hijacking This is refers to the seizure of individualities by other groups for purpose of entering rescue on their release.

vi) Oil Exploitation This is the process that involves the drilling and the refining of crude oil painting by the oil painting companies.

vii) Niger Delta Region This is the coastal region in Nigeria located in the Atlantic seacoast, transverse by Delta and its feeders. The region comprises seven countries of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Rivers and Ondo countries.

viii) Severance This is a situation in which those willing and suitable to work don’t find any, at the prevailing pay envelope rate.