Evaluation of Crime and Safety in Lagos Metropolitan Parks

Abstract

The principle of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) was applied to examine the fear of crime on park users at selected urban parks in Lagos State, Nigeria. The objectives were to evaluate the types of security measures, as well as the types and frequency of crime in urban parks. Incidental sampling technique was employed to gather information from 300 patrons in the parks. In addition, site observations, crime mapping, and interviews with park users as well as managers were used to collect data. Descriptive statistical methods were used for data analysis. Findings revealed that the parks had very few crime generators. In addition, low levels of crime occurrences were observed due to the physical settings and their locations within the city. Although, the majority of the park users (90.4%) felt safe in the parks but still had fear of crime relating to crimes that they had experienced somewhere apart from the parks under study. The study concluded that security-related environmental design attributes had a significant effect on the users’ safety perception of the parks. Suggestions on how to improve safety conditions in the parks were made.

Strategies used for Crime Prevention in Urban District, Zanzibar

“…African countries also practice crime prevention programs to prevent different kind of crimes. In Nigeria, for instance, closed-circuit television, electric fencing wires, high walls, private security guards and security dogs were highly used to reduce crimes and fear of crime in different locations such as urban neighborhood, high way roads, parking areas, big shops, churches and other areas which accumulate a big number of people (Ajayi & Atanda, 2020). South African apartheid history created fear of crime and sense of insecurity between black Africans and white Africans.…”

“…The idea behind is to make crime prevention awareness and improve territorial bound among community members. Concerning Lagos Metropolitan Parks, Ajayi and Atanda (2020) asserted that park decoration and placing day lighting posts is an effective crime prevention approach as lack of strong gates, enough light, cameras and physical guards gives room for criminals to commit evil intentions. Walwa (2017), Walwa (2018), Sambaiga (2018), Killian and Pastory (2018) and Mussa (2019) established that the study area had commonly practiced different crime prevention approaches like neighborhood watch, youth crime and sports, patrol community groups and Ward/Shehia community policing officers.…”

PC Towards Understanding Zimbabwe’s Competence-Based Science Curriculum and its Implications on the Study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

“…This results in the new approach to teaching-learning being ineffectively implemented. The consequence of such a scenario is the limited acquisition of STEM knowledge, skills, and attitudes by the students (Ajayi 2009). In line with the above-mentioned challenge (Gondo et al 2017) postulated that the success of CBSC implementation can to a greater extent be influenced by the inadequacy of learning materials.…”

Volume 2 Issue 2

“…In African countries, Nigeria for example, crime prevention was typically for crime reduction and fear of crime in urban neighborhood and at the area such as schools, churches, mosques, high building, and car parking areas (Ajayi & Atanda, 2020). In South Africa, crime prevention is mostly exercised at private houses, shopping malls, parks and business complex.…”