Abstract :
— Effective response towards crime is one of the
essential priorities for all society. In order to provide an
effective response, it is significant to understand the
relationship between crime and various factors. Economics
has always been a social science which focuses on resource
availability as its demand. The imbalance created has
paved way for economic distortions and impact on wellbeing of mankind. In the pursuit to improve financial wellbeing, criminals have always been guided by economic
factors and thereby providing a wide scope to analyze
inter-dependence between economics and crime. Therefore,
an attempt has been made to find out the socio-economic
status and various factors for committing property crime
among 654 convicted property crime offenders housed in
the eleven prisons of the state of Tamil Nadu. Findings
reveal that almost all of the respondents are belong to poor
socio economic status and they have cited various factors
such as personal factors, situational factors resulted in
committing property crime. The derived finding will be
more useful in preventing individuals from committing
property crime by understanding and rectifying the
causative factors.
Keyword :
Economics of Crime; Property Offenders; Economic Factors.