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Youth Crime: Causes and Remedies
Muhammad Ali
June 2008

Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17223/
MPRA Paper No. 17223, posted 11. September 2009 06:31 UTC

Essay on:

Youth Crime: Causes and Remedies
For Youth Essay Competition 2008 of Ministry of Youth Affairs Government of Pakistan

By:
Muhammad Ali Shuja
Student, M.Phil Economics
Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi

23rd June 2008

Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1
Causes of Youth Crime ............................................................................................................. 2
Economic Situation ...................................................................................................................... 2
Social Factors ............................................................................................................................... 3
Family Structures ......................................................................................................................... 4
Personal Factors ............................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Consequences of Crime ............................................................................................................ 4
Remedies for Youth Crime ....................................................................................................... 5
Eliminate the corruption ............................................................................................................. 5
Strengthen the Law Enforcing Agencies ...................................................................................... 5
Targeting markets of stolen goods
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