Abstract
Criminality is part and parcel of human nature and society. That is why no society can claim to be completely free of crimes. But the types of criminal behaviour tend to follow the pattern of social and economic development of a given society. This study therefore focus on the trend of criminal activities in enugu state between 2000-2009. The survey research method was adopted in this work. The population is the total number of reported cases in Enugu State for the period of 2000 to 2009. Secondary data was used for this study. The data was collected from the Police headquarters, Enugu.
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-distribution was used to answer some of the research questions as well as determine the hypothesis set for the studymost prevalent crime in the state and if the rate of crime against persons is the same with crime against property.
From SPSS output, it is obvious that there are differences among the mean rate occurrence for various crimes for the period under study. Before establishing the most rampant form of crime, further testing using a one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was carried out to find out if the differences were statistically significant.
From the findings, the rate of occurrence of major forms of crime in Enugu State can be ranked as follows – Assault, Armed Robbery, Unlawful Possession, Arson, Grievous Harm, Burglary, House Breaking Automobile theft, Rape, Murder, manslaughter, forgery and kidnapping.
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