Youth unemployment and crime in Bosaso City, Somalia
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Date
2018-11
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Kampala International University
Abstract
The study examined the impact of youth unemployment on crime in Bosaso city, Somalia. It was
guided by three objectives that is to say; analyzing the causes of youth unemployment,
examining the nature of crime committed by youths and examining how youth’s unemployment
leads to crime in Bosaso Somalia. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design that allows
analysis of both quantitative and qualitative. The study was carried out on the youths living in
Bosaso where a sample of 109 respondents was selected using simple random sampling
technique. The findings showed that the rate of youth un employment is high in Bosaso and this
is due to a number of reasons such as lack of education, lack of experience, political instabilities,
limited jobs among others. The study also showed that because of un employment, youths have
engaged in a number of crimes including, terrorism, robbery, kidnapping, drug abuse, domestic
violence among others. The study revealed a strong, significant and positive correlation between
gender and the level of unemployment among youths (r=.824**
, p<.01)(82%). This indicates that
the level of unemployment differs between males and females. There is a strong, significant and
positive correlation between age and cause of unemployment (r=.744**, p<.01)(74%). This
confirms that most of the youths are unemployed than the elders. According to the findings,
there is a strong relationship between education and unemployment (r=.901**
, p<.01)(90%). The
educated tend to find what to do easily than the uneducated. The findings also revealed a poor
relationship between marital status and unemployment (r=.408**, p<.01) (44%). This indicates
that marital status does not have a direct effect on unemployment. The study showed that both
employed and employed youths can perpetrate or be influenced to perpetrate violence that can
threaten national security. The study recommends that that another strategy is the promotion of
education from grassroots levels, and the need to introduce and encourage vocational and
technical education at all levels of education in the country. This will help reduce youth
unemployment since it is skills oriented and employment motivated. Similarly entrepreneurship
should be incorporated into education curriculum at all levels, starting from secondary schools to
higher level institutions. This will help prepare youths to becoming more of job creators than job
seekers and hence from social dependence to self-sufficient.
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Keywords
Youth unemployment, Crime, Bosaso City, Somalia