Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria

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.

1. Introduction.- 2. Nigeria's Urbanisation History, Trends, Drivers and Implications.- 3. The Criminal Justice System: Actors, Processes and Policies.- 4. Applicability of Traditional Environmental Criminological Theories in Developing Country Contexts.- 5. A Framework for Inter-City Comparative Analysis of Crime.- 6. Contemporary Configuration of Crime across Nigerian Cities.- 7. Crime Precipitators.- 8. Urban Crime Harm.- 9. Urban Crime Prevention and Control.- 10. Conclusion.