This study will lay emphasis to investigate the effect of corruption and extortion in conventional police stations on Nigerian citizens.

This study will be of significant to the government as it will aid in the formulation of policies and laws that could help improve the economic and social wellbeing of its citizens and deter criminality.

The study is specifically focused on identifying the predictable factors responsible for recent attacks on Nigeria Custodial Centers and identifying the implication of prison breaks in society.

This study will be helpful to the government on how to take precautionary and proactive measures to the already critical issue of cyber crime.

Almost all human activities have been modified by cyber technology. As a result, in contemporary Nigeria, majority of people own mobile phones with internet connection and have accounts on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, etc.

Online fraud ruins a country's reputation, making the business climate difficult for start-ups and small and medium-sized organizations, and deterring foreign investment in the economy. Individuals lose money resources, intellectual property, or personal sensitive information as a result of cybercrime, and the consequences can be severe, especially targeting senior persons and the weak. In the United States in 2018, around 62,000 persons aged 60 and up reported losses totalling more than $649 mi... read more

The importance of information and communication technology (ICT) in all sectors of human effort is widely established and obvious. Through the use of electronics and the internet, ICT has interconnected many economies throughout the world. Many corporations, including banks, today rely on ICT and computer networks to accomplish fundamental and complicated activities.

Cyberspace provides limitless chances for economic, social, and educational activity, as well as a safe sanctuary for society miscreants to carry out their nefarious operations. Technology is progressing at a breakneck pace, allowing users to access the internet through a variety of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Even the tiniest phone can now connect to the internet, making it vulnerable to online crime, often known as cybercrime.

Corruption is one of the most widespread social evils in Nigeria; it is seen as a main threat in the public and private sphere. Corruption undermines fragile democratic systems by fuelling popular disillusionment with politics and politicians; it also undermines trust and confidence, which are necessary for upholding and development of sustainable economic and social order. Corruption is not only peculiar to Nigeria, it is a global phenomenon. However, anti-corruption war in Nigeria is like a gu... read more

overty: The vicious cycle of poverty has been defined as the phenomenon where poor families become trapped in poverty for at least three generations. The families have either limited resources or no resources. The concept of the vicious cycle of poverty holds that low productivity leads to low income, low income leads to low savings and low savings leads to low investment and low investment to low productivity. Crime- A crime is a violation of criminal statutory law and a specific punish... read more

According to socialization theories on parenting, children’s socialization is facilitated by various parental behaviors, skills, and attitudes which are embedded within the broader context of interparental and parent-child relationships (Laible & Thompson, 2007). Parents’ actions communicate the limits of acceptable behavior and model regulatory strategies, while the relational context may increase or decrease the likelihood that children will adopt behaviors prescribed by caregivers. For ex... read more

mergence of the group in 2010 came up with a new tactics that include suicide bombing, kidnapping, attacking Islamic clerics, Mosques and churches in the country. Nigeria witnessed the first suicide bombings in police headquarters and United Nation's office in Abuja (Blanchard, 2014). The activities of the sect escalated when on 14th April, 2014 the sect kidnapped 250 female students from Government Girl's Secondary school Chibok in Borno State (Zenn, 2014). Also, Boko Haram and Ansaru were desi... read more

Voodooism - Hornby defines it as a religion that is practiced especially in Hattie and involves magic and witchcraft. The films today in Nigeria are mostly on voodooism. Religious Triumphalism - Also, the Hornby refers triumphalism as (disapproving) behaviour that celebrates a victory or success in a way that is too proud and intended to upset the people you have defeated. The Christianity which emerges on the screen is unrealistic, a “crossless” Christianity in which the victories which ... read more

t is the situation that Ake (1995: 2-5) indicated as the product of the pattern of state affairs in the developing world. According to him, the high premium on political power, and the attendant intense struggle for it, further hinders national development for the promotion of the personal interests of the political leaders. Eke further observed that: Besieged by a multitude of hostility forces, most of the leaders in Africa are political insecure. They are as completely engrossed in the stru... read more

o tackle insecurity, a key starting point should be to understand the causes of insecurity as well as to investigate their sources of social disorder and instability. As Andrew and Kennedy (2003) pointed out, it is necessary to distinguish between different causes as each may require different remedy. Besides, it is to provide a holistic view to the suggestion or recommendations of solutions. More often, however, policy makers are disinclined to isolate and clarify particular causes. They prefer... read more

A client is a system that accesses or desires for a service made accessible by a server. Server: A server is a system (hardware or software) program running to provide the service requests of other system programs. Port: Port is a software mechanism that allows the centralized connected Servers to listen for requests made by clients. Port is actually purposed as a gateway to listen for the requested parameters by the server terminals or other machines. It is a software address on a system ... read more

Theoretical significance: this study will contribute to existing literature on PSCs/PSGs especially in the area of crime prevention in Nigeria. The study will also provide the baseline information on typologies of crime prevention in Niger state and stimulate research in the field by other researchers and academicians. Moreover, the study will provide reference document to other scholars who want to engage in studies of PSCs and crime prevention. (b) Practical significance: the findin... read more

Criminality in Nigeria has been an age long problem that has significantly affected the development of the country both economically, politically and otherwise. The issue of criminality has taken a surprisingly upward surge in Nigeria owing to the increase in the wave of crime and other illicit practices. This high level of criminal tendencies in Nigeria has negatively affected the international image of the country and thus preventing or making it difficult for us to enjoy the goodwill of other... read more

Presumably any comparative research in criminology must highlight the similarities and dissimilarities of a particular crime in the countries being studied. Our first concern would have been to establish whether armed robbery was a problem in both countries (see Clinard & Abbot, 1973). The research would have considered two different groups of youths from two different cultural backgrounds. The study would have enabled us to know the current, recent, and previous robbery trends in both countries... read more

ifficulty in gathering materials especially relevant to the study was a challenge since the study is not common. This caused scarcity of relevant research materials from local papers. Hence, the researcher had to rely greatly on the foreign materials in order to put up this work. Another challenge faced by the researcher was lack of fund and limited time for the undertaking and submission of this work.