URBAN DYNAMICS AND CRIME CONTROL

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ABSTRACT

This research is essentially a descriptive one bearing in mind that peevishly and work has gone in to issues of crime in urban areas. If often assumed that urban areas are synonyms with crime and that the more an area becomes urban the more the rate of crime increases. It is against this background that this research is premised. We should know that the dynamics of urbanization can cause rapid changes in the rate of crime in an area. Also its evaluation of the efficiency of the police as a major form of crime control (both in reporting and curbing crime) was carried out.
Our case study is Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Ogun State commonly which is experiencing rapid urbanization due to the presence of offices, shopping complexs, presidential houses, school, Eateries and cafes. Since our research is descriptive in nature we made reference to a lot of secondary data we collected data in the form of crime statistics. An evaluation of crime cases document from 1997-2007 was carried out. Also we interviewed some residents of the community by asking their perception of policing in the area and also their view on alternative means of crime control (vigilante groups, night watchmen etc.).

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Urbanization dynamics with the physical power and forces of pulling a large number of people to become permanently concentrated in a relatively small area of forming cities as a result of large number of people migrating in search of greener pasture.
The advent of industrilazation marks a great turn in human resistence, it being the acecendent that has brought tremendrous in every aspect of human social life the dividend of industrialization is double faceted, one of which is being pivotal in the development or economics, attainment of political poer and general changes in socil cultural life, industrial area are often view as the epitome of good living attrate a high inflow of people in search of green pasture. However industrialzation is a major cause of the myriad of social problem that have been plug in human societies to this crime which is one of major social problem that pervate our society is quite pertinent to tthe study.
For the decades researchers have carried out studies on the incidence of crime. They hyave attempted to explain why crime ismore prevalent in certain place that others. In concordiance with this, studies have often speculated that crime is predominant in urban areas, however the features aligns with urban areas show that they have intendency to have more frequent occurences of crime. Features such as the high population, the high level of inequalities, interogeneous natures of the resisdent. The social control mechanism among others. The field or sociology has been termed urban crime studies. It invovle the scientific study of crime in urban-area and stretches across measuring the frequncies of crime cases in urban area using available data provided by statistics agencies or police report, the demographic features such as population size and density. The immigration/emmigration and then the socio-economic and culture factors. The factors mentioned are instrumented in aiding researchers view the pattren of an area assuming status and the seemingly proportionate level of crime.