THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN COMBATING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL CRIME IN TANZANIA
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Youth in a society represents the driving force for development. In order to become useful resources they must gainfully be employed. Otherwise, being volatile resources, being unemployed will lead to their energies to be directed to wrong practice that is crime. This article examines the relationship between crime and youth unemployment on the one hand and crime and entrepreneurship on the other hand. The review of literature has shown the existence of a big relationship between unemployment andcrime practices as drawn from sociological control and social strain theories and empirical studies. It further shows that, the problem of unemployment can be reduced with youth engaging in entrepreneurship practices as a means of creating employment andin turn lessen the problem of crime. The study made use of review of literature, where various published and unpublished documents were visited. The documents covered the period between 1990 to current years.
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