Analysis of Effect of Macroeconomic Indicators on Drug related Re-offending (1979-2006)

in regard to increasing trend of recidivism in Iran and notable share of drug-related crimes in all of reported crimes, analysis of various dimensions especially economic type in sphere of macro-economic and penal policies can be necessary
using descriptive and analytic method and using OLS regression analysis technic, the relationship between inflation and unemployment with drug-related re-offending during 1979-2006 in Iran has been studied.
Findings: There is a positive relationship between inflation and unemployment with dependent variable that all coefficients are statistically significant. R2 coefficient for unemployment variable is 0.16 and for inflation has shown 0.74.
Conclusively, inflation and unemployment among other socio-economic measures such as Gini coefficient, education and urbanization could explain 85% variations of dependent variable.