Crime is a major impediment to economic growth and development in Nigeria despite measures taken to reduce it. There is …, however, currently no major statistical analysis of how crime affects economic growth in that country. This study examines the … link between crime and growth based on the theory of rational choice and empirical data. Exogenous and endogenous growth …

Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through … theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between crime and socio economic indicators. After which I test the hypothesis … strategy. I also empirically inspect the role economic growth, unemployment, urbanization and quality of legal system play in …

aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …