Crime and economic conditions in Malaysia by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom

“…Findings: The results indicate that murder, armed robbery, rape, assault, daylight burglary, and motorcycle theft exhibit long‐run relationships with economic conditions, and the causal effect in all cases runs from economic conditions to crime rates and not vice versa. In the long‐run, strong economic performances have a positive impact on murder, rape, assault, daylight burglary, and motorcycle theft, while on the other hand, economic conditions have negative impact on armed robbery. …”
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Determinants and convergence incidence of crime by Abdul Hamid, Baharom

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Crime and income inequality: the case of Malaysia by Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…Interestingly our results indicate that income inequality has no meaningful relationship with any of the various categories of crime selected, such as total crime, violent crime, property crime, theft and burglary. …”
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International evidence on understanding the determinants of crime by Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Mohd Noor, Zaleha

“…The main motivation of the study was to have a better understanding of crime, finding and suggesting alternative way of approaching crime. …”
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Good governance and crime rates in Malaysia by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Din, Badariah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom

“…Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to relate the quality of governance with crime in Malaysia. The study also identifies the best good governance tool to fight against crime in Malaysia. …”
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Good governance and crime rates in Malaysia by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Din, Badariah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to relate the quality of governance with crime in Malaysia. The study also identifies the best good governance tool to fight against crime in Malaysia. …”
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Crime and police personnel in Malaysia: an empirical investigation by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Muhamad, Suriyani

“…The economic theory on crime behavior proposed by Becker (1968) suggests that an increase in the number of policemen can deter crimes. …”
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Crime and police personnel in Malaysia: an empirical investigation by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Tan, Keat Siang

“…The economic theory on crime behavior proposed by Becker (1968) suggests that increase in the number of policemen can deter crimes. …”
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Crime in the United States of America: testing the ‘Broken Window’ hypothesis by Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah

“…We test whether property crime (proxy for minor crime) leads to violent crime (proxy for major crime) in the fifty one states with respect to the period 1960 to 2007. …”
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Time series test of nonlinear convergence of violent crime in the United States by Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Razali Chong, Royfaizal

Crime and its socio-macroeconomics determinants: a panel-error-correction cointegration analysis by Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Mohd Noor, Zaleha

“…The main motivation of the study is to have a better understanding of crime as well as finding and suggesting alternative ways of approaching crime. …”
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Tax evasion and financial development in ASEAN-5 by Habibullah, Muzafar Shah, Abdul Hamid, Baharom, Din, Badariah, Ibrahim, Mansor

“…The estimated total tax evasion as reported by the Tax Justice Network in 2011 is in the excess of USD3.1 trillion or about 5.1% of world's GDP. Tax evasion is a crime and tax revenue losses have negative consequences to the government ability to fueled economic growth by providing enough public infrastructure and other services. …”
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