Dynamics of Public Administration
Year : 2019, Volume : 36, Issue : 1
First page : ( 20) Last page : ( 36)
Print ISSN : 0975-3907. Online ISSN : 0976-0733.
Article DOI : 10.5958/0976-0733.2019.00003.8

Caging the Leviathan

Aluko Opeyemi Idowu

Lecturer II, Political Science Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, Nigeria. Email id: opealukoheavenprogress@gmail.com, oi.aluko@acu.edu.ng

Online published on 2 May, 2019.

Abstract

Crime is a universal phenomenon that has span through the nook and cranny of many communities. The trend and dimension may vary from place to place but the outcome is usually the same which is typically physical and psychological trauma. Though it persists crime is not acceptable across the world. Therefore, many policy measures have been adopted which had a significant lee way over the menace. The security agencies as a physician who were meant to cage the criminal syndicates in most cases become patients that need emergency attentions. The question that this work seeks to answer is why do security personnel become suspicious agents in the community of their operations? The broken window theory is adopted to explain the effect of violence in the community. The methodology used in this work is simple purposive random sampling technique to analysis two-thousand four hundred (2400) respondents each across four states in Africa. The policy recommendations that failed in the past were revisited and recommendations that will work are then posited. The major conclusion reached in this work is that when the security agents are well monitored the resultant effect of crime in the community will drastically reduce.

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Keywords

Crime, Democracy, Peace, Police, Rule of Law, Urban Violence and Vigilante.

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