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The Influence of Macroeconomic Factors on Murders in Jamaica: Should the Police Be Cautious in Interpreting the Murder Statistics?
Cleon March and Paul A. Bourne
Corresponding Author: Paul A. Bourne
Submitted: 2011 August, 01
Accepted: 2011 October, 07
Published: 2011 November, 15 |
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Jamaica has been plagued by high murder rates for some time and the issue has become a national
problem. This seeks to: 1) model murder, 2) determine factors of mortality, 3) examine the role of poverty on
murder, and 4) provide policy markers, particularly the police, with an understanding of how murders can be
effectively addressed. This study is a secondary data analysis of statistics from different agencies. Data were
entered and stored into Microsoft Excel and SPSS for Window version 17.0 (SPSS Inc; Chicago, IL, USA)
which were both used to analyze the data. The averaged murders per decade have been increasing by
geometrical progression, with the greater proportion occurring in the last decade (2000-2010). Although
averaged murders for each decade have been increasing, the lowest increased occurred in the 1990s compared
to the 1980s (43.4%). There is a strong positive correlation between the annual exchange rate and lnmurder
(rs = 0.934, p<0.0001). However, a strong inverse relationship exist between lnpoverty and annual exchange
rate (rs = -0.748, p<0.0001) as well as between lnpoverty and lnmurder (rs = -0.831, p<0.0001), while weak
relationships existed between 1) exchange rate and mortality (rs = 0.507, p<0.019), 2) lnpoverty and mortality
(rs = -0.549, p<0.010) and 3) lnmurder and lnmortality (rs = 0.485, p<0.026). The Jamaican police should not
credit themselves for the reduction in murders that took place in 2010.
Key words: Economic growth, exchange rate, econometric models, jamaican police, jamaica, macroeconomic variables, murder, mortality, police, poverty
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Cleon March and Paul A. Bourne, . The Influence of Macroeconomic Factors on Murders in Jamaica: Should the Police Be Cautious in Interpreting the Murder Statistics?. Asian Journal of Business Management, (4): 257-277.
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