A study on economical conditions of convicted inmates of central prison Dharwad, Karnataka

Pages: 1946-1949
Ravikanth B. Lamani and G. S. Venumadhava (Department of Criminology and Forensic Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka)

Crime is the concept which is made by us, in broad sense it can be said that crime is a man made phenomenon. Crime and its relation with the socio-demographic profile and economic status of the individual is a subject which has been discussed by many of the scholars since time immortal. The focus of the present paper is to find out the association between the socio-economic factors and the criminal behavior of the respondents in reference to Central Prison, Dharwad. Prison inmates of Dharwad Central Prison were selected for the present study. The socio-economic details of the respondents were gathered by framing structured questionnaire and inferences were drawn by the frequency tabulation and ANNOVA tests. Majority of the respondents (97.62%) were male between the age group 28-37 years (41.04%) and majority of them were married (65.45%). Majority (62.25%) of them belonged to urban locality and (85.56%) practiced Hindu religion. (43.42%) of the respondents belonged to other backward classes and surprisingly majority of them (78.18%) resided in nuclear families. (86.60%) were literates and (55.72%) of them had completed their higher secondary education. (54.22%) of the respondent had monthly income between 5001/- to 10000/- and (86.32%) of them held a BPL card