This report is the second to be produced under the CLEEN Foundation’s National Crime Victimization Survey’s Project, which began in 2005. The objectives of the project were to provide policy makers and practitioners in the Nigeria criminal justice systems, especially the police, with reliable and complimentary information to official statistics on extent, trend and patterns of criminal victimization in the country as well as geographical distribution of victimization. This we hope would aid the development of appropriate responses to crime and victimization by stakeholders as well as enable a time series analysis and better appreciation of the direction of crime and victimization in Nigeria.
The publication presents the findings and analysis of the data of the 2006 edition of the survey Read more

Crime and victim statistics are required by various audiences for different purposes. The efforts by criminologists to study criminals, crimes and victims as well as responses or reaction of government and non-governmental agencies to them will be greatly impaired by the absence of reliable crime and victimization statistics. Similarly, criminal justice policy-makers cannot plan properly for effective control of crime and insecurity if they do not have reliable statistics on criminality and criminal victimization. The law enforcement officials can also not offer effective service if they do not know the extent and pattern of crime and victimization in their commands. Read more

There persists today a myth of a Hobbesian Niger Delta. Gang wars, cult killings, kidnapping of oil workers, hijacking of oil tankers, violent occupation of oil installations, armed robbery, election violence and communal conflicts are the raw materials for this mythology of the Niger Delta. This myth, in turn, feeds into stereotypes of a Niger Delta that is peopled by groups that are prone to conflict, criminality and violence. Yet, paradoxically, under military rule the Niger Delta was portrayed as the epitome of democratic resistance by local communities and their organizations. Read Book

The survey conducted in August 2004, covered Lagos metropolis. Data were obtained through multi-stage sampling design. The target population from which the sample was drawn were people who were 16 years or older in 14 Local Government Areas. Fieldwork was carried out by the staff of the Federal Office of Lagos with supervision by staff of CLEEN Foundation also based in Lagos, In all, 2091 respondents were interviewed: to find out whether or not they were victims of crime during the past five years; to discover extent and types of criminal victimization in Lagos metropolis; to find out the level of subjective feeling of safety as well as attitudes to crime and the police among the residents of Lagos. The summary of the findings are as follow: Read Book