A Study Of The Personal And Socioeconomic Characteristics Of Offenders Whose Cases Were Decided By The Higher Courts Of Oromiya

The main objective of this study is identifying the deleml.! n ~l!ts o ~ cr i l~l ir.a!ity l~ rollghrnstudyi ng the personal and socioeconomic charucterisucs of the offenders whose casesrnwere decided by the higher courts of Oromiya.rnTo meet th is obj ecti ve, the combined two- swgc sampling procedure and the method ofrnlogist ic regression are used to analyse the data. Information on age, sex, marital status,rnlevel of education, occupation, mental sani ty/stability, place of residence, zone ofrnresidence and economic status of the offenders were considered for a random samplernof 967 indi viduals accused of committing crimes at different times before 1997/98 andrndec ided as criminals and non-criminals in 1997/98.rnDifTerent models have been built for all types of crimes and all the selected lones, forrneach of the two strata, and for difTercnt groups of crimes.rnWhen all the cases arc considered toget her the most important determinants ofrncriminality are found to be age, economic status and zone differe nce. In this studyrncriminality is found to be negatively related to ' poverty ' which is against the theoriesrnand empirical studies on the causes of crime.

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