The Level of Education Influences the Degree of Criminal Behavior of Criminal Offenders in New Delhi

• In Event: Roundtable: Individual-Level Explanations of Crime

Abstract

The degree of the criminal offense will be based upon the punishment they have been given according to the Indian penal code. Theft gets a maximum of 3 years, a person who kidnaps gets a maximum of 7 years and a person who commits murder gets the life sentence. I will use a survey with close-ended questions to find what years of education they have completed. I will use a sample of 1500 criminal offenders from Tihar Jail, New Delhi, India. The time dimension of the research study is a period of six months starting from 01/01/2018 – 06/01/2018. The unit of analysis is individuals, and I have chosen to conduct a cross-sectional study. As my research does not involve follow-ups and the data can be collected all at once. The sample of criminal offenders will be obtained using stratified sampling in order to obtain a greater degree of representativeness than using just simple random sampling or systematic sampling. The population will be stratified according to their convictions, which are subcategorized as Theft, Murder, and Kidnapping.

Author

• Nadine Makhani, St John's University