期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：6
页码：1006-1015
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i6/7468
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：One of the ways to ensure that the current socio-economic development policies and strategies fall into place, socio-economic matters should be improved, and the well-being of Malaysians must be safeguarded. However, crime can pose a challenge to Malaysia as it can hinder the policies implementation. This study aims to provide a conceptual framework on socio-economic determinants of crime in Malaysia. This study is in the spirit of criminal motivation and criminal opportunity theory. Hence five socio-economic variables of interest are chosen namely as unemployment, income, inflation, the number of the labour force with tertiary education and female labour force participation are being discussed as potential socio-economic determinants of crime in Malaysia. This study provides a conceptual framework as a direction for further research as well as policymakers to prevent crime through continuously improve the socio-economic status of Malaysians.
