Managing crime through quality education: A model of justice

• Published in: Science & justice 2019-11, Vol.59 (6), p.597-605
• Main Authors: Zaman, Khalid, Usman, Bushra, Sheikh, Salman Masood, Iswan, Khan, Aqeel, Kosnin, Azlina Binti Mohd, Rosman, Arieff Salleh Bin, Ismail, Sarimah, Ali, Dayana Farzeeha, Hishan, Sanil S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Crime rate; Education; Panel regression techniques; Per capita GDP; R&D expenditures
• ISSN: 1355-0306; 1876-4452
• DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.08.004

The study examines the role of quality education in access to justice, using a panel data of 21 diversified countries for the period of 1990–2015. The findings show that there is a positive relationship between the presence of scientific and technical journals (STJ) articles and crime rates. The R&D expenditures does not substantially reduce crime rate while per capita income, trademark applications, and technical cooperation grants significantly reduce crime rates across countries. The panel fixed effect (FE) model confirmed the inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita income (GDPpc) and crime rate in the presence of STJ, while this result is changed in the case of GMM estimator. The results of panel causality confirmed the unidirectional causality running from crime rate to STJ and R&D expenditures, while there is bidirectional causality between i) GDPpc and technical cooperation grants, and between ii) energy efficiency and refugee population by country. The variance decomposition analysis (VDA) shows that R&D expenditures have a greater share to influence crime rate, while technical cooperation grants will affect STJ for the next 10 years time. This finding bolsters the conversation on the relationship between education and a reduction in crime rates. •To examine the relationship between education and crime rates in a panel of 21 countries.•Scientific and technical journal articles (STJA) increases crime rates across countries.•Per capita income, trademark applications, and technical cooperation grants reduce crime rates.•The study concludes with the fact that quality education helpful to attain justice.•Academia-industry linkages are needed to reduce crime rates through job creation.