A Study on Scoio-economic Aspects of Criminals in Tiruchirappalli City, Tamil Nadu

P Mary Santhi; S Balaselvakumar; K Kumaraswamy

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v8i1.4

Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-23

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A Study on Scoio-economic Aspects of Criminals in Tiruchirappalli City, Tamil Nadu

P Mary Santhi¹, S Balaselvakumar², K Kumaraswamy³

¹Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli, 620023, India
²Assistant Professor & ICSSR Senior Fellow & Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous), (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Tiruchirappalli, 620023, India
³Department of Geography, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, 620024, India

Received Date:12 January 2019, Accepted Date:23 April 2019

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Abstract

This article is an attempt to study the socio-economic characteristics of criminals in Tiruchirappalli city like the investigation of family size of the criminals, residential location, gender, age, religions, education, occupation, income and motivation of crimes. The socioeconomic characteristics reveal that 84% of the criminals were in the age group of 20 years and above, 50% of the criminals indulged in criminal activity for 2- 4 years, thieves and automobile thieves were high with 43% while motives of criminals were drinking, drug-habits and thirst for leading a luxurious life with 54.3%. Moral education with the co-operation of parents, counselling and guidance by social reformers and psychiatrists will help the criminals to improve their characters and change their behaviour which will in return reduce the occurrence of crimes of various types.

Keywords: Criminals; Socioeconomic characteristics; Crime occurrences Moral education; counselling

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