Entrepreneurship Development leads to employment creation, growth of the economy those results to sustainable development. Youths on the other hand represents the working force of every society which can bring about economic growth and development of every nation. In order to achieve economic growth and development it becomes imperative that they must be gainfully employed, otherwise, being unemployed means that their energies will be diverted to negative practices which is crime. Even though it is generally acknowledged that social vices are global issue, however, its rate and incidence of criminality varies among youths, states and nations. It has been established by previous work done in this area that high unemployment rate in Enugu State is responsible for high rate of social vices in the state. It is in the light of this, that the role of Entrepreneurship Development as a tool for the reduction of crimes is examined. The study made use of review of literature, where various published and unpublished documents were visited. It was found out that Entrepreneurship Development does not only help to reduce social vices among youths, but also boosts the economic growth and development of nations. It further shows that, the problem of unemployment can be reduced with youths engaging in entrepreneurship practices as a means of creating employment and in turn lessen the problem of crime.