Criminal Law Unit #3: Researching and Compiling Data Harshil Shah

The Correlation between Educated People and Homicides in Canada

The Hypothesis that I have made regarding Educated People and the Homicide rates in the provinces and territories of Canada is that the more Educated People there are per capita, there will be a direct correlation that indicated less crimes are being committed.

The reason why I believe that educated people are not going commit Homicides is because they’re aware of the consequences, and will have a more mature mindset about violent acts. Secondly since Educated people with degrees, usually have jobs, given the country’s national employment rate at 84% will most likely be in a huge financial insecurity that they will have to commit a murder to get money, or even be in scenario of having to rob a bank/store just to support themselves. Thirdly people with university degrees will not be major time drug addicts which will cause them to commit crazy acts of murder, because the effect that some drugs have on the human mind. Educated people will not be doing this because, the ones with jobs the manager or boss would find this unacceptable at a workplace, and they’ve understood the severity of drugs like heroin and what they do to the human Brian. Therefore since Educated people would not be likely to participate in homicidal activities, in correlation this will lower the crime rate.

Key factors, in that are calculated in when making the correlation, is first the use of the term which defines “Educated People” in my scenario. Educated People that will be represented in my scenario are People in Canada that have at least a University Degree which I believe makes them an Educated Person. And Homicides Rate is the percent rate of Homicides being calculated in per capita, so bigger Provinces don’t automatically jump to the top of the table. The definition of Homicide in the correlation is any (1st,2nd degree Murder, manslaughter, and Infanticide). The data Collected for this Correlation occurs in the Year 2011. The territories are not included my data because there is not enough data on them.

The national Average which I calculated for my rates are a nation average of 0.36% of people with university degrees or higher education (such as doctorates, masters, Ph.D.). And an average of 1.71 murders per capita. Based on the result of the data I think I conclude to determine that there is no such correlation, between Homicide rate and the Education rate Which proves my correlation wrong, In fact the results of the data are incomparable to each other as the homicide rate barley shows up in the graphs, giving it not only a weak correlation but no correlation.

This is partly due to the number of homicides being so low in Canada, compared to a country with a homicide rate, higher than us, like USA, or a place where the homicide rate is ridiculously high. Also if Canada had a higher population, even with the same slope of the Homicide rate, there would be a larger possibility for some correlation to appear, but in this graph there wasn’t any hint of correlation. Another factor that was affecting the result was the high number of highly educated individuals in Canada, a Total of roughly 36% of the Canadian population.