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Title:
EFFECTS OF CRIME ON THE SOCIETY: A SOCIO-URBAN APPRAISAL OF KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASSARAWA STATE

Authors:
Akintola Ismail PhD. , Akintola Abdallah PhD. and Yahayah Yusuf

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Akintola Ismail PhD.1 , Akintola Abdallah PhD.2 and Yahayah Yusuf3
1. Department of Sociology And Anthropology, Faculty Of Business and Social Sciences, Baze University,Plot 686,Cadastral Zone C00, Kuchigoro, Behind National Judiciary Institute,Abuja.
2. Department of Natural Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
3. Baze University,Plot 686,Cadastral Zone C00, Kuchigoro, Behind National Judiciary Institute, Abuja.

MLA 8
Ismail, Akintola, et al. "EFFECTS OF CRIME ON THE SOCIETY: A SOCIO-URBAN APPRAISAL OF KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASSARAWA STATE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 7, no. 7, July 2022, pp. 2060-2099, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.024. Accessed July 2022.
APA 6
Ismail, A., Abdallah, A., & Yusuf, Y. (2022, July). EFFECTS OF CRIME ON THE SOCIETY: A SOCIO-URBAN APPRAISAL OF KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASSARAWA STATE. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 7(7), 2060-2099. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.024
Chicago
Ismail, Akintola, Akintola Abdallah, and Yahayah Yusuf. "EFFECTS OF CRIME ON THE SOCIETY: A SOCIO-URBAN APPRAISAL OF KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASSARAWA STATE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 7, no. 7 (July 2022), 2060-2099. Accessed July, 2022. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2022.v07i07.024.

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ABSTRACT:
This paper concentrates on three communities in Karu local government area of Nassarawa state. The study revealed the major causes of crime in the study area as follows: Unemployment, poverty, insecurity, taking of hard substances etc. The effects of these crimes as determined in the study are loss of personal belongings, sleep disorder as a result of fear, physical and permanent injuries. The study postulated two hypotheses and these hypotheses were tested using Chi-square (X2 ). The Chi-square computed for effect of crime in the study area is 27.01 and the X 2 table value at 0.05 is 26.30. Therefore, Ho was rejected; hence, the acceptance of the alternative hypothesis-there is significant relationship between crime and the society. The findings shows that armed robbery and burglary are the prevalent crime committed in the study area. This study provides a way in which society can be better managed in dealing with these problems.

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