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Bidang Kajian : Keluarga

Pelajar/Pengkaji Oleh: Noor Zarina Binti Mohd Zaidi

Alamat Emel: zarinazaidi@yahoo.com

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                                Crime is one of the worrying social and political issues in Malaysia as it poses an enormous negative impact on society. The world was served with daily reporting and broadcast of violent crime act. It is major importance for the world residence to play their roles actively in fighting against crime act. Hence, this paper aims to study the economic determinants of crime volume, namely unemployment rate and inflation rate, and its causal interplay with crime volume. Augmented Dickey-Fuller statistics model is used to test the stationarity of the data before Johansen and Juselius cointegration test can be done to see the cointegration between the variables. Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) was adapted to obtain the optimal lag order of the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). Only then Granger causality test can be exercised upon the data to check the causal interplay between the selected variables. The sample period covered annual data of crime rate, unemployment rate and inflation rate from 1985 until 2016. The findings show that crime volume does have cointegration relationship with both unemployment rate and inflation rate. Granger causality test shows causality run from unemployment rate to crime rate and no reverse causality identified. However, no causality interplays between inflation rate and crime rate.

Keywords: crime volume, inflation rate, unemployment rate, Granger causality.

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