Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria
This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising country Nigeria, as a case study for urban crime in developing nations. In Africa’s largest democracy, rapid unmanaged growth in its ci
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Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria “This book on Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria is the first comprehensive book on the intersection between urbanisation and crime in Nigeria. It offers theoretical and empirical explanations of the factors within the urban environments in Nigeria that shape and are shaped by crime. Scholars and students of criminology, urban sociology, and social geography will benefit from reading the book.” —Etannibi Alemika, Professor of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria “Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria is a most timely and hugely important work that chronicles how crime in emerging cities of fast-growing developing nations can be better understood, managed and controlled. Incisive, deft and innovative, this book intelligently pulls together diverse big data sources to critically expand scholarship in an innovative and accessible way. The authors illustrate how spatial thinking and analysis is essential to solving urban criminogenic problems and generating insight for strategic and operational decision-making. The book is a “must read” for leaders of cities across our world, urban and rural planning practitioners, students, academics and everyone working towards a safer and more secure human society.” —Paul Olomolaiye, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom “The Book—Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria—is a bold attempt made by the two authors to discuss the nexus between urbanisation and crime in the country. By so doing, the authors are assuming that crimes can be understood through the theory of ‘environmental determinism’ or better still, ‘architectural determinism’, being a theory employed in urbanism, sociology and environmental psychology, which claims that the built environment is the chief or even sole determinant of social behaviour as postulated by many authors including Jeremy Bentham, Adolf Behne, David Smith Hubert J. Gans, Ray Pahl, David Correia and many others. The question is: can we say that urbanization or urban development is the sole determinant of crime? While environmental determinism theory as an explanation of social conduct is now most often referred to in the literature as discredited, yet surprisingly it is still to be found as an argument for urban renewal. In writing this new book, the authors are implicitly calling for a revisit of the subject matter. They have aptly the trends of urbanisation in
Nigeria and several aspects of crime. They reviewed theories of crimes on which the analyses presented in Chap. 6 on the contemporary configuration of crime across Nigerian cities were based. While urbanisation as the sole cause of crime is not proven, nevertheless, the causes of crime can be attributed to several socioeconomic factors which the authors dubbed ‘crime precipitators’ such as poverty, poor parental upbringing, manipulation by politicians, unemployment, failure of the
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