Police and the institution of corruption in Nigeria

Oluwaniyi, Oluwatoyin O.

doi:10.1080/10439463.2010.541245

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“…Policing in Nigeria deviates from normative expectations and is done with little or no regard for procedural fairness (Alemika, 2010;Agbiboa, 2015;Akinlabi, 2015;Akinlabi, 2013). Public order maintenance is achieved at a great cost; mostly through intimidation, violence, lack of fair procedures, and through violating people's rights (Agbiboa, 2015;Oluwaniyi, 2011). The potential consequences of such police actions are also alarming.…”

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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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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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“…Recent studies have also confirmed the perpetuation of colonial legacies in Nigerian policing in the 21 st century (see Akinlabi, 2016;Alemika, 2010;Okafor, 2007;Oluwaniyi, 2011;Onoge, 1993). The relationship between the police and the people continues to be troublesome.…”

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Dull compulsion or perceived legitimacy? Assessing why people comply with the law in Nigeria

Akinlabi

Murphy

2018

Police Practice and Research

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Do people living in societies rife with police corruption comply with the law because they perceive police as legitimate or because of their feelings of endemic powerlessness (i.e., what Tankebe (2009) refers to as dull compulsion)? Prior studies have shown that compliance is driven primarily by perceptions that authorities and their laws are legitimate and entitled to be obeyed. Using cross-sectional survey data collected from Southwest Nigeria, this study found that perceptions of police effectiveness and procedural justice were related to Nigerians' self-reported compliance with the law. Importantly, and unexpectedly, neither dull compulsion nor perceptions of police legitimacy were related to Nigerians' self-reported compliance behaviour. The implications of these findings for policing in postcolonial African societies are discussed.

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“…In the Nigerian context, it has become difficult to ignore the fact that corruption is not only a part of the government, but it is the object of government [7]. This is why Oluwaniyi [8] argues that "corruption has become a widespread phenomenon in Nigeria, deeply permeating into its social fabric to the extent that it has now become a way of life for the majority of people in both public and private spheres. "…”

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“…Again, while many of these scholars have focused on the impact of corruption on political culture [14], development and the economy [12,18], others have examined the prevalence of corruption in certain institutions [8], or how to control the malaise [16]. Furthermore, other non-Nigerian scholars [4,5] have studied corruption in Nigeria.…”

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“…Because of the fact that all forms of corrupt practices are present in Nigeria, many scholars (e.g., [6,8,[15][16][17][18]) have made it a bona fide topic of discourse in contemporary scholarship. Again, while many of these scholars have focused on the impact of corruption on political culture [14], development and the economy [12,18], others have examined the prevalence of corruption in certain institutions [8], or how to control the malaise [16].…”

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“I Collected Money, not a Bribe”: Strategic Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Corruption in Contemporary Nigeria

Dumbili

Sofadekan

2016

Social Sciences

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This article explores the language of corruption in Nigeria. It uses Eisenberg's Strategic Ambiguity concept to examine the extent to which Nigerian legislators and those who occupy the executive arm of the government employ ambiguous languages and actions to execute and defend corrupt practices, and how this institutionalizes the culture of corruption in contemporary Nigeria. The article further explores how ambiguous light punishment, outright non-punishment, state pardon of corrupt elites and the reward of corrupt elites with sensitive government appointments engender corruption in Nigeria. The article argues that while the elites engage in diverse corrupt practices and employ ambiguous words to defend their acts, the judiciary appears to defend rather than punish them. The paper discusses the implications of these findings, concluding that the war against corruption in Nigeria may not be effective, because as those who appear to be fighting corruption are themselves corrupt, the frameworks with which corruption is fought are strategically manipulated by the elites.

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Police and the institution of corruption in Nigeria

Cited by 41 publications

References 15 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

Dull compulsion or perceived legitimacy? Assessing why people comply with the law in Nigeria

“I Collected Money, not a Bribe”: Strategic Ambiguity and the Dynamics of Corruption in Contemporary Nigeria

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