| dc.description.abstract | Durkheim（1897） said” Crime is a social phenomenon”. The National Policy Agency of Taiwan uncovered that the violent crime rate began to fall yearly; however, the economic crime rate has gradually increased over the past decades. Although the main causes of crime differ, most are related to social-economic factors. We are trying to discover the connection between social factors and the crime rate in Taiwan,
The research focused on Taiwan’s crime issues in 19 counties, from Jan. 2007 to Jan. 2022, based on Taiwan Public Statistics Database. The crimes include fraud, copyright infringement, economic crimes, robbery, and forced rape. Looking into the economic and social factors behind these crimes, we can find unemployment rate, economic growth rate, monitoring indicators, out of business, divorce rate, the density of population, net migration, high education, etc. The study applied the fixed-effects model and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model for analysis. Under the fixed-effect model, we found that the unemployment rate and economic growth rate, density of population, net migration, and the proportion of age 20-40 significantly impact economic crimes;.
In contrast, the unemployment rate, density of population, and high education factors significantly impact violent crimes. The results showed that both economic growth and recession would cause economic crimes. Nevertheless, the main causes of violent crimes are unemployment, social structure, and education. On the other hand, the SUR model shows that each type of crime is related. Therefore, the unobservable error terms of each regression are correlated. | en_US |