Urbanisation and crime in Nigeria /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Foreword I; Foreword II; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Overview of the Book; 1.2 Why This Book Was Written; 1.3 Who Should Read This Book; 1.4 A Note on Sources; 1.5 Structure of the Book; References; 2: Nigeria's Urbanisation History, Trends, Drivers and Implications; 2.1 Urban Settlements and Urbanisation: Conceptual Clarification; 2.2 Brief Historical Context of Urbanisation in Nigeria; 2.3 Urban Data, Trends and Scale of Contemporary Urbanisation; 2.3.1 GRUMP Dataset; 2.3.2 WorldPop Dataset
- 2.3.3 Africapolis Dataset2.3.4 United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects; 2.3.5 Urbanisation Trends; 2.3.6 Density and Expansion of Urban Frontiers; 2.4 What Is Driving Urbanisation in Nigeria?; 2.5 Cities as Forces of Transformation; 2.6 A Diagnosis of Challenges Confronting Nigerian Cities and Urban Dwellers; 2.7 Urbanisation and the Crime Challenge; References; 3: The Criminal Justice System: Actors, Processes and Policies; 3.1 The Colonial Foundations of the Nigerian Criminal Justice System; 3.2 Legal Frameworks for Criminal Proceedings in Nigeria
- 3.2.1 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 19993.2.2 Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) and Criminal Procedure Laws of the Various States of the Federation; 3.2.3 Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and Criminal Procedure Code Laws of the Various States; 3.2.4 Criminal Procedure Code Act Cap 491, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990; 3.2.5 Criminal Code Act Cap C 38 Laws of the Federation 2004 and Criminal Code Laws of the Southern States; 3.2.6 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004; 3.2.7 Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act
- 3.2.8 Police Act Cap P19 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 20043.2.9 Public Order Act (Cap P42) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; 3.2.10 Terrorism (Prevention) Act No. 10, 2011 and Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act, 2013; 3.2.11 Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012; 3.2.12 Cybercrimes (Prohibition and Prevention) Act; 3.2.13 Other Ancillary Frameworks; 3.2.14 Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015; 3.3 Systemic Indices of Failure; 3.3.1 Failure of Governance
- 3.3.2 Lack of Public Confidence in the Police and Justice System3.3.3 Weak Enforcement of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA); 3.3.4 Connivance of State Security Actors with Vandals; 3.3.5 Inter-Agency Rivalry Among Internal Security Institutions in Nigeria; 3.4 Impact of the Criminal Justice System on Security; References; 4: Applicability of Traditional Environmental Criminological Theories in Developing Country Contexts; 4.1 Theories and Their Usefulness for Studying Urban Crime; 4.2 Overview of Environmental Criminology Theories