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 cities combined with decaying public infrastructure mean that risk factors accumulate and deepen the potential for urban crime. This book includes a thorough explanation of key concepts alongside an examination of the contemporary configuration, dynamics, dimensions, drivers and potential responses to urban crime challenges. The authors also discuss a range of methodological techniques and applications that can be used, including spatial technologies to generate new data for analysis. It brings together history, theory, trends, patterns, drivers, repercussions and responses to provide a deep analysis of the challenges that confront urban dwellers. Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria offers academics,researchers, governments, civil society organisations, citizens, and international partners a tool with which to engage in a serious dialogue about crime within cities, based on evidence and good practices from inside and outside sub-Saharan Africa.

Auteur
Adegbola Ojo is Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography & Applications of Big Data, and Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Geography, University of Lincoln, UK. His research focuses on the understanding and representation of the socio-economic and spatial intricacies of population behaviour within the framework of interdisciplinary studies, population and urban geography, quantitative social science and computer modelling.

Oluwole Ojewale is a public policy researcher and global development worker with experiences in governance, advocacy, community resilience, human and environmental security. He works with a broad range of stakeholders on programmes such as: accountable governance for justice and security; national survey on election and democracy; preventing and countering violent extremism projects. He heads the research and strategy development unit at CLEEN Foundation, Nigeria.

Contenu
•Preface and Acknowledgement•Foreword•List of Figures•List of Tables•List of Abbreviations
1.Introduction1.1.Overview of the Book1.2.Why this Book Was Written1.3.Who Should Read this Book1.4.A Note on Sources1.5.Structure of the Book
2.Nigeria's Urbanisation History, Trends, Drivers and Implications2.1.Urban Settlements and Urbanisation: Conceptual Clarification2.2.Brief Historical Context of Urbanisation in Nigeria2.3.Urban Data, Trends and Scale of Contemporary Urbanisation2.3.1.GRUMP Dataset2.3.2.WorldPop Dataset2.3.3.Africapolis Dataset2.3.4.United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects2.3.5.Urbanisation Trends2.3.6.Density and Expansion of Urban Frontiers2.4.What is Driving Urbanisation in Nigeria?2.5.Cities as Forces of Transformation2.6.A Diagnosis of Challenges Confronting Nigerian Cities and Urban Dwellers2.7.Urbanisation and the Crime Challenge
3.The Criminal Justice System: Actors, Processes and Policies3.1. The Colonial Foundations of the Nigerian Criminal Justice System3.2.Legal Frameworks for Criminal Proceedings in Nigeria3.2.1.Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 19993.2.2.Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) and Criminal Procedure Laws of the Various States of the Federation3.2.3.Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) and Criminal Procedure Code Laws of the Various States3.2.4.Criminal Procedure Code Act Cap 491, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 19903.2.5.Criminal Code Act Cap C 38 Laws of the Federation 2004 and Criminal Code Laws of the Southern States3.2.6.Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 20043.2.7.Recovery of Public Property (Special Provisions) Act3.2.8.Police Act Cap P19 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 20043.2.9.Public Order Act (Cap P42) Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 20043.2.10.Terrorism (Prevention) Act No. 10, 2011 and Terrorism (Prevention) (Amendment) Act, 20133.2.11.Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2011 and Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 20123.2.12.Cyber Crimes (Prohibition and Prevention) Act3.2.13.Other Ancillary Frameworks3.2.14.Administration of Criminal Justice Act 20153.3.Systemic Indices of Failure3.3.1.Failure of Governance3.3.2.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 Vandals3.3.5.Inter-Agency Rivalry among Internal Security Institutions in Nigeria3.4.Impact of the Criminal Justice System on Security
4.Applicability of Traditional Environmental Criminological Theories in Developing Country Contexts4.1. Theories and their Usefulness for Studying Urban Crime4.2. Overview of Environmental Criminology Theories4.2.1.Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)4.2.2.Crime Opportunity Theory4.2.3.Routine Activity Theory4.2.4.Crime Pattern Theory4.2.5.Broken Windows Theory4.2.6.Rational Choice Theory4.3.Using Theories and Empirical Frameworks to Support Evidence-Based Security Decision-Making4.4.Reflections: The Case for a New Wave of African Urban Ecological Theories of Crime
5.A Framework for Inter-City Comparative Analysis of Crime5.1. Arguments in Support of Empirical Inter-City Comparative Analysis of Crime5.2. Crime Frequency5.2.1.Volume of Urban Crime5.2.2.Prevalence of Urban Crime5.2.3.Incidence of Urban Crime5.3.Concentration of Crime5.3.1.Urban Crime Concentrati...