Causes of Crimes in Educated Youth of Sindh: A Survey Study

The existing research study was conducted to uncover the causes of committing crime in educated youth of Sindh. The objective of this study was to determine the root causes and present recommendations for solution. For this purpose, survey method of research was used. Population of the study based upon the students of universities of Sindh. The total number of public and private universities are 20 among all 10 universities are from public sector while remaining 10 are from private sector. The sample of the target population is 300 from which 15 students were randomly selected from each university. For data collection a questionnaire was used as a research tool comprised six items. Five points Likert scale was used for answering the asked questions. The SPSS version 17 was used for analysis of data. It was concluded in this study that there are number of causes like unemployment, age, gender, poor education etc. that excite youth to commit crime. Therefore in order to cope up this problem different crime prevention strategies should be put into action.