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Title:Readings in campus violence
Editors:Olurode, 'LaiISNI
Soyombo, Omololu
Year:2004
Pages:287
Language:English
City of publisher:Ikeja, Lagos
Publisher:John West Publications Limited
ISBN:9783635077; 9789783635074
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:violence
students
universities
youth
cults
domestic violence
Abstract:Campus violence in Nigeria takes on various forms, including cultism, sexual harassment and armed robbery. The papers collected in this volume address causes as well as ways to combat combat campus violence,. They are grouped into five sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical and empirical issues; 3. Factors in causation; 4. Institutional dimensions; 5. Combating the menace. Section 3 deals, amongst others, with the issue of cultism, while section four focuses on the role of the family and religious institutions in combating campus violence. Some titles: Campus violence: an overview of students' protest in Nigeria's tertiairy institutions (Remi Anifowose); Traditional cults in Nigerian societies and the implication for youth violence in university campuses (Augustine Agugua); The media machine and campus violence: what synenergy (Abigail Ogwezzy); The proliferation of secret cults and violence in Nigerian higher institutions: a demographic perspective (John Oyefara); Campus cultism: our collective failure and the derailment of a noble consciousness (Pius Adejoh); The menace of cultism in Nigerian universities (Chinwe Nwanna and Augustine Aguga); The menace of campus violence: the failure of the family institution (Bola Amaike); The islamic approach to the students unrest on campus (Tunde Bidmos); Campus violence: a by-product of family violence (Micheal Ekiran); Combating campus violence: what role for creative artists? (Bode Osanyin). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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