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Title: | Do the police really protect and serve the public? Police deviance and public cynicism towards the law in Nigeria | Contributor(s): | Akinlabi, Oluwagbenga Michael (author) | Publication Date: | 2017-04 | Early Online Version: | 2016-07-19 | DOI: | 10.1177/1748895816659906 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26715 | Abstract: | 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 organization in detecting or disciplining 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. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Criminology & Criminal Justice: an international journal, 17(2), p. 158-174 | Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1748-8966 1748-8958 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160205 Police Administration, Procedures and Practice 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment 170113 Social and Community Psychology |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440211 Police administration, procedures and practice 441001 Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society 940404 Law Enforcement 940402 Crime Prevention |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230404 Law enforcement 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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