The prevalence of unemployment in an economy provides the unemployed persons with an impetus to commit crime for monetary gains.

For a country where majority of the young is jobless crime may become a sport activity. According to the theory of economics of crime, unemployment has a cost, i.e. it increases crime. In addition, high unemployment is costly as it keeps parts of the labour force out of production and, if persistent is likely to decrease the skills and know-how of the labour force.

Lin, 2007;, Buonanno & Montolio, 2008; Baron, 2008). The poverty risk induced by, unemployment inclines unemployed individuals to seek alternative strategies for, securing an income, including in some cases, criminal activities. And while, poverty is a frequent consequence of becoming unemployed, unemployment also, provides other motives for engaging in crime. Unemployment generates negative, stimuli from social interactions, frees the individual from the social control, imposed by institutions such as workplace and the moral judgment of colleagues,, and promotes idleness.These are all mechanisms that, according to theory, may, affect criminal behavior during unemployment