International records / OpenAlex research

10.51847/5i0qArR3DB

It is axiomatic to posit that criminals have virtually taken over Nigeria.This is because crime rate is souring in the polity and there exists many determinants to this anti-societal behavior amongst the people.In this paper, those variables that are crime prone in Southeastern state of Anambra over a 16 year study period were determined using Principal Component Analysis (PCA); a Multivariate Statistical Technique that is use to reduce the dimensionality of a large number of interrelated crime variables while retaining as much of the information as possible.Data were collected on eight crime …