that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …

Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household … trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence of violent crimes and property crimes …. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the …

areas through elements of poverty and crime. As such, the degradation process is rendered visible on the basis of social … of the squatters as the origins of poverty and crime will be rendered debatable within the perspective of urban … that this area has been attracting attention for years due to its increasing poverty and crime rates, brought about urban …