Contributing Factors to Police Homicide in Nigeria

Ojedokun, Usman Adekunle

doi:10.1350/pojo.2014.87.1.651

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“…The high-handedness of some officers during their daily routines sometimes result in police extra-judicial killings and this often leads to violent confrontations between the police and the public (Ojedokun, 2014). It is commonplace for members of the public to build up counterstroke and reprisal attacks on police officers or to vent their frustration on police vehicles and stations, in response to perceived injustice from the police (Pratten, 2007;Oluwaniyi, 2011).…”

Section: Abuse Of Power Corruption and Cynicism Towards The Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In general, the Nigeria police have a poor relationship with the community, and policing activities can hardly be seen as positive because of incessant police abuse and corrupt practices. The police do not see themselves as the agents for meeting citizens’ needs (Ojedokun, 2014). They perceive themselves as closely aligned to the people in power, and in most cases act as political instruments to suppress any opposition to influential individuals or groups (Smith, 2007).…”

Section: Abuse Of Power Corruption and Cynicism Towards The Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Do the police really protect and serve the public? Police deviance and public cynicism towards the law in Nigeria

Akinlabi

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This study empirically examines the everyday problem of corrupt policing and other related abuses in Nigeria, and how these deviant behaviours engender public cynicism towards the law. In any democratic society, police officers are expected to be accountable for their actions and inactions. But the perennial problem in Nigeria is that the police are not accountable to anyone. The history of Nigeria policing is littered with accounts of deviance, malevolent attitudes towards the public, and failures of the police organisation in detecting or discipline errant officers. Using a sample of 462 participants from a cross-sectional survey, this study examines whether actual or vicarious experiences of police deviance are likely to predict public cynicism towards the law. This current study corroborates previous assertions that the relationship between the police and the public in Nigeria is poor and that police deviance engenders cynicism towards the law. Implications for policymaking and law-abiding behaviour are discussed.

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Section: Abuse Of Power Corruption and Cynicism Towards The Lawmentioning

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Section: Abuse Of Power Corruption and Cynicism Towards The Lawmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do the police really protect and serve the public? Police deviance and public cynicism towards the law in Nigeria

Akinlabi

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…This is the case with BWCs: The probability of getting caught assaulting an employee is substantially enhanced because a camera pointing at the transgressor provides unequivocal evidence of the assault. The assumption is therefore that reasonable individuals will not want to be caught and subsequently punished for misbehavior (Margarita, 1980; Ojedokun, 2014) - unless of course if the individual is purposely seeking to assault the employee, for ideological or personal reasons, and has something to gain from the recording and subsequent broadcasting of the assault, despite the punishment. In addition, staff members are less likely to behave in ways that would cause them to be injured, or that would provoke the client, patient, or customer to violate the codes of conduct.…”

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Reducing Assaults Against Staff Using Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) in Railway Stations

Ariel

Newton

McEwan

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Criminal Justice Review

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Workplace violence is a major health and safety phenomenon. We investigate whether body-worn cameras (BWCs) can achieve a cost-effective reduction of assaults. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with train stations exposed to the highest recorded assault rates against staff in England and Wales. Treatment members of staff were equipped with BWCs and control staff were unexposed to BWCs. Official records of assaults against treatment and control staff as well as against any employee at the station complexes are used as outcome measures. Results suggest 47% significant overall reduction in the odds of assaults against BWCs-equipped staff at treatment versus controls locations—or approximately two versus four assaults, on average, per station. In addition, we found a 26% significant reduction in assaults against all employees in the treatment versus control station complexes—9 versus 12 assaults, on average, per station—suggesting that BWCs have a spatial diffusion of benefits effects. We estimate that BWCs can reduce at least 3,000 working days per year lost because of physical violence at work. We conclude that BWCs provide substantial benefits for staff health and safety to those who are equipped with the devices as well as to staff in the vicinity of BWC-equipped employees.

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“…The performance of the Nigeria Police Force is a bit encouraging when noting the puny circumstance in which a Police Officer carried out the policing task. This is because the insubstantial fund given to the Police Force has made them be in possession of inadequate and obsolete equipment and it has exposed most police officers to hazard at the detriment of violent criminals who were well equipped (Ojedokun, 2014). However, the efforts of the Nigeria Police Force were able to record crime cases, prosecute those cases and have cases closed upon investigation.…”

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The Link Between Economic Growth, Crime and Deterrence Measures in Nigeria

Adekoya

Razak

2016

Studia Universitatis „Vasile Goldis” Arad – Economics Series

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Abstract:The level of crime in Nigeria has become devastating and in order to put more sanity into the economy and the country at large, the Government has embarked on different deterrence measures in curbing crime. Thus, this study examined the interaction of deterrence measures with crime in order to see how economic growth was affected when they were used in curbing crime at different instances. That is, the interaction of deterrence measures with crime informed us how they have helped in lowering crime in Nigeria for a better economic growth to subsist. The deterrence measures considered in this work are in line with the rational choice theory being the cost of crime imposed on the society. Furthermore, this study considered data from 1975 to 2013 with the use of autoregressive distributed lag model. Moreover, the results showed that crime dependency on deterrence measures asymmetrically constituted means of lowering economic growth in the country. Hence, this study suggested that prosecution should be well funded and in order to curb crime and improve economic growth in Nigeria. That is, this would afford the country to reduce the congestion of prison inmates and thus, it would discourage long waiting trials.

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Contributing Factors to Police Homicide in Nigeria

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

Do the police really protect and serve the public? Police deviance and public cynicism towards the law in Nigeria

Do the police really protect and serve the public? Police deviance and public cynicism towards the law in Nigeria

Reducing Assaults Against Staff Using Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) in Railway Stations

The Link Between Economic Growth, Crime and Deterrence Measures in Nigeria

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