Dynamics of Crime, Tertiary Education, Quasi Democracy and Misery Index in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis

Abstract

Abstract

The volatility of the crime rate has been strongly contiguous with the series of socio-economic factors in Pakistan, along with the varying contribution across two distinct government regimes. The said study conducted for the purpose of tertiary education, enrollment rate, inflation, urban population growth rate and level of unemployment on the increasing crime in the community of Pakistan.  A statistical test was adopted for the calculation of the education and crime period in the country from 1965 to 2018. It is evident from the reserch that the higher education impact on the control of crime in the community. However the increase in the urbanization, is adverly effecting the crime in the country.Therefore, policy to reduce crime rate is that a specific interventions are required for the promotion of Tertiary Education and stability of democracy for longer period of time. For reducing misery and rural-urban migration of the people, it is necessarily required to achieve considerable higher inclusive growth while transmitting its fruits to the deprived rural segments. A smooth policy may also be devised for the provision of basic necessities & facilities of life at the door step of rural segment of the country to avoid the devastating rural- urban migration which will help to reduce the various categories of crimes.

            Keywords: crime rate; Oken,s Misery Index & Barrow,s Misery Index; tertiary education; democracy; Pakistan.