The effect of government governance quality on crime

In recent decades, a lot of research has been done by researchers on the quality of government governance and the choice of the best governance framework. Governance is a broad concept that is directly related to areas such as economic, political, social and legal security. Crime is an obstacle to social and economic development. This significantly reduces the ability of governments to provide justice, health, education and other social services to citizens and weakens the rule of law. For this reason, strong governance strategies are necessary to prevent crime that hinders social and economic development. Many researchers have emphasized the role of economic factors such as inflation, unemployment, and poverty on the development of crime, but in fact, the governance quality of governments as the main custodians of economy and politics can be the main cause of all disorders, which has received less attention. Therefore, in this research, by using the FMOLS test, the relationships between the variables of crime rate and governance quality were investigated in the period of 1390-1398 in Iran. It is negative and based on the ranking and the impact of governance quality indicators on the crime rate, the most impact is related to the supervisory quality variable and the least impact is related to the corruption control variable. Therefore, in order to reduce crime, raising the quality of government governance should be considered by policy makers.