Citation

Zaman K, Usman B, Sheikh SM, Iswan, Khan A, Kosnin ABM, Rosman ASB, Ismail S, Ali DF, Hishan SS. Sci. Justice 2019; 59(6): 597-605.

Affiliation

Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Forensic Science Society, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.scijus.2019.08.004

PMID

31606097

Abstract

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.

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Language: en

Keywords

Crime rate; Education; Panel regression techniques; Per capita GDP; R&D expenditures