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Title: | Capitalist Economy and the Crime Problem in Nigeria |
Author: | Odekunle, Femi |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 79-94 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | offences Economics and Trade Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486523 |
Abstract: | Using available evidence from ordinary and scientific observations as well as from official police crime statistics, the first section of this paper asserts the magnitude, seriousness, and pervasiveness of Nigeria's crime problem. In the second section, explanations of criminal behaviour within the context of biology, or in terms of inadequate and inappropriate socialisation are briefly considered and dismissed. Instead, an attempt is made to explain the crime problem in Nigeria as an inevitable consequence of a social order that is inherently crimogenic in its structure and system of distribution of wealth, power, prestige, and other rewards among the members of the society. The problem of crime, as well as its social and economic 'causes' and consequences, is a continuous indictment of, and challenge to, the inequality-ridden capitalist social order in Nigeria. Ref., French sum. |