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Does poverty lead to crime? Evidence from the United States of America

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  • Mohammed Imran
  • Mosharrof Hosen
  • Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury

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Purpose - Economic hardship and crime is always a debatable issue in the political economy literature. Some authors define poverty leads to crime some are completely opposite. The purpose of this paper is to find out the impact of poverty on crime in the USA. Design/methodology/approach - Using time series data of USA over the period from 1965 to 2016, this study applies autoregressive distributed lag approach to identify the effect of poverty on crime. Findings - The outcomes confirm a positive co-integrating relationship between poverty and property crime. It can be argued that poverty ultimately leads property crime in long run in the USA. However, unemployment and GDP exhibit neither long-run nor short-run relationship with property crime and they are not cointegrated for the calculated period. Research limitations/implications - The subject of this paper helps to explain and analyze the nexus between poverty and crime in the USA. Practical implications - Government and policymakers should focus more on poverty rather than unemployment alone to control property crime. Originality/value - This study attempts to identify the consequences of economic hardship and poverty on the crime in the advanced economy like USA.

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  • Mohammed Imran & Mosharrof Hosen & Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury, 2018. "Does poverty lead to crime? Evidence from the United States of America," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 45(10), pages 1424-1438, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijsepp:ijse-04-2017-0167
    DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-04-2017-0167
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    1. Ajide, Folorunsho M., 2021. "Fiscal Policy and Crime Rate in Nigeria," African Journal of Economic Review, African Journal of Economic Review, vol. 9(4), September.
    2. Aadil Hameed Shah & Atta Ullah Khan & Abdul Saboor & Muhammad Iftikhar‐ul‐Husnain, 2022. "Approximation of crime, poverty, and misery index across quasi‐democratic and dictatorship regimes in Pakistan: Static and dynamic analysis," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(1), pages 50-68, March.
    3. Muhammad Khalid Anser & Zahid Yousaf & Abdelmohsen A. Nassani & Saad M. Alotaibi & Ahmad Kabbani & Khalid Zaman, 2020. "Dynamic linkages between poverty, inequality, crime, and social expenditures in a panel of 16 countries: two-step GMM estimates," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 9(1), pages 1-25, December.
    4. Noman Arshed & Sidra Nasir & Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed, 2022. "Impact of the External Debt on Standard of Living: A Case of Asian Countries," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 163(1), pages 321-340, August.

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    USA; Poverty; ARDL; Property crime;
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