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Crime economy is one of the interdisciplinary subjects which intend to analyze crime economically. With regard to increasing trend of crime in our country, it is important to study different aspects especially economic aspect for some crimes such as drug smuggling which has direct relationship with economic affairs and accurate and scientific understanding of cause and effect relationships will give suitable method for better management of society to the policymakers. In the present article, analytic –descriptive method has been used and relationship between unemployment rate and drug smuggling is explained by reliance on statistics and information and on the basis of regression models in OLS method.
Research finding shows that positive relationship between unemployment rate and drug smuggling as well as positive relationship between monthly cost of families and ratio of city dwelling to drug smuggling offence and negative relationship between monthly income of the families and drug smuggling. The obtained results show that unemployment causes another cost i.e. some crimes such as drug smuggling which will have harmful effects for society in addition to some charges such as unemployment insurance cost and costs of reduction of skill and specialty of labor force and other direct and indirect charges which are imposed on economy of a society.
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Musai, M., & Mehrara, M. (2014). The Relationship between Drug Smuggling and Unemployment (Case Study: Iran). International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences, 3(1), 117–128.
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