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Author: Sookram, Sandra

Title: A Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Trinidad and Tobago

Summary: What should be done about crime is a matter of heated debate: popular, political, and academic. Alternatively, one might treat crime control as an ordinary policy issue, like transportation or the control of pollution, in which policies are to be judged by their outcomes, including their costs. In Trinidad and Tobago the policy agenda and the public are demanding stronger measures to deal with rising crime. This paper evaluates empirically the effect of the criminal justice system and socio-economic conditions on serious crime (which includes both property and violent crime) in Trinidad and Tobago over the period 1970-2007. Our study finds that the crime detection rate, unemployment rate, the percentage of females in the labour force and the percentage of the labour force with tertiary education are very important in determining criminal behaviour.

Details: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago: The University of the West Indies, 2009. 16p.

Source: Internet Resource: SALISES Publications • Working Papers
Paper 2009:20; Accessed July 1, 2013 at: http://sta.uwi.edu/salises/pubs/workingpapers/20.pdf

Year: 2009

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

URL: http://sta.uwi.edu/salises/pubs/workingpapers/20.pdf

Shelf Number: 129218

Keywords:
Crime (Trinidad and Tobago)
Crime Statistics
Socioeconomic Conditions and Crime
Time-Series Analysis