CRIMINOLOGY PROJECT TOPICS AND RESEARCH MATERIALS

• 41. THE EFFECTS OF HOME VIDEO AND MOVIES INDUSTRY ON THE SOCIO-MORAL BEHAVIOURS AND ...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. 1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY In contemporary Africa, one of the greatest pastimes is the video film. It has become a newfound love for the African mind. This is largely due to its accessibility to huge audience including children and adolescents as compared to an older form of media production like the cinema. Larkin (2002:14) says: African video films refer to the rise of...Continue Reading »

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• 42. THE EFFECT OF AGRESSION AND VIOLENCE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Aggression among students of secondary school occur world wide, among all problems of secondary school, none is as debilitating as aggression because of its effect on the bully and the victim as well. Aggression is a pattern of behaviour in which one individual is chosen at the target of repeated aggression of one or others; the target person (...Continue Reading »

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• 43. SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMES) IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION A. STATEMENT OF GENERAL PROBLEM Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria have not performed creditably well and hence have not played the expected vital and vibrant role in the economic growth and development of Nigeria. This situation has been of great concern to the government, citizenry, operators, practitioners and the organised private sector groups. Year in yea...Continue Reading »

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• 44. SECURITY SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE USAGE IN SELECTED SECO...

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Global system for mobile communication (GSM), is a digital telephone system that digitalizes and compresses data to help improve the speed of wireless mobile when communicating... (answers.yahoo.com/question/index3/11/09). GSM is one of the leading digital cellular systems that use narrowband Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) which allows eight simultaneous calls on...Continue Reading »

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• 45. GROWING UP IN A HIGH CRIME NEIGHBORHOOD AFFECT YOUTH CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The question of whether lifelong disadvantage is related to the type of neighborhoods individuals are exposed to at a young age is not only of concern to social scientists but is a key question in the public policy debate (see e.g. early work by Brooks Gunn et al., 1993, or studies using random assignment by Gould, Lavy, and Paserman, 2004 a...Continue Reading »

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• 46. ANALYSIS OF INVESTIGATION IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOUR IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study During the closing decades of the twentieth century, owerri justice policy underwent major change. In less than a generation, a justice system that had viewed most young lawbreakers as youngsters whose crimes were the product of immaturity was transformed into one that stands ready to hold many youths to the same standard of criminal accountabi...Continue Reading »

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• 47. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ROLE OF PARENTS AS A CAREER COUNSELOR TO THEIR ADOLESC...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Career counseling is a specialty within the profession of counseling, one that fosters vocational or career development and work adjustment of individuals at each life stage by engaging them in life planning aimed at the psychological integration of an individual’s abilities, interests, and goals with the work roles structured by the community...Continue Reading »

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• 48. THE EFFECT OF JUNGLE JUSTICE ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICS SYSTEM IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The right to life is enshrined in the constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria. The 1999 constitution the Federal public of Nigeria in section 3(1) provides that, very person has a right to life and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offense of which he ...Continue Reading »

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• 49. CRIME CASE REPORTING AND THE OBSERVABLE IMPACT ON ITS VICTIMS

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.2 Statement of the Problem Many societies all over the world have had to contend with the consequences of criminal activities, which include lives and properties fear of the unknown, political instability, victimization by conventional criminals, amongst others. (Fayeye, 2010.)Even though a member of the society reports a crime to a law enforcement officer, it would not be counted un...Continue Reading »

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• 50. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SECURITY MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: THE BOKO HARAM CHALLENGE

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY It is a common knowledge that Nigeria since her return to civil rule in 1999 faces some national security challenges across the six geo political zones in the country. The spate of bomb blasts, kidnapping, pipeline vandalism and other forms of criminalities in recent times in various parts of the country are emerging trends of domestic terrorism. In...Continue Reading »

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• 51. THE EFFECTS OF BANK FRAUD IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: 21ST CENTURY EXP...

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The concept fraud is a term known in all works and cranny in Nigeria. Fraud has eating deep into the fabrics of Nigerian society, mostly in this present 21st Century. The only remedy to this ugly situation will be self discipline and honesty among bank staff, otherwise this decadence will persist. What is fraud? Some well read individual have tr...Continue Reading »

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• 52. TERRORISM AND NIGERIA’S ECONOMY, AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY â€...

  » Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Background of the study Terrorism according to lodge is an illegitimate means of attempting to effect political change by the indiscriminate use of violence (Lodge 1988:5). Also Madunagu (2001:51) maintains that terrorism is “the use of violence to achieve political objectives”. The bottom line of the above definitions is that terrorism is an aspect of pol...Continue Reading »

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• 53. ETHNIC MILITIA: A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY IN NIGERIA – PDF

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Presently in Nigeria, the formation of ethnic and religious have completely taken over the stage and also have played a noticeable role with socio political interactions of the Nigerian state. The scenario of this ethnic militia has posed itself to be a threat to Nigerian democracy and security, spanning from the North, East, and South of the Ni...Continue Reading »

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• 54. EFFECT OF DRUG ABUSE ON NIGERIA YOUTHS

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Drugs are commonly used by everybody whether young or old. Drugs are not only useful for human beings; they are also useful for animals for good health. Human beings give drugs to their animals when they discovered that they are not healthy. Drug is an effective substance in the life of any living thing to cure sickness and to make life healthy....Continue Reading »

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• 55. THE ECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF ‘BOKO HARAM’ INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ‘Boko Haram’ is an extremist Nigerian Islamist militant sect that was formed in Maiduguri in 2002 by Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf. The sect seeks the imposition of a strict Sharia Islamic Law throughout Nigeria and as its name, Boko Haram (literally translated as “Western education is a sacrilege/sin) denotes, the group believes that N...Continue Reading »

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• 56. A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME AND PATTERNS OF CRIME IN NIGERIA: AN EXPLORATION OF ME...

  » CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) claim that their general theory of crime has universal status, that it is valid across time and space. They note that cultural imbalance theories, which they define as those theories that apply only to a particular culture, dominate traditional comparative criminology. Advocates of such theories argue that each cu...Continue Reading »

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• 57. AN ANALYSIS OF CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL ACT IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SECTOR

  » CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The Nigerian police Authority have and will continue to be one of the prime mores of development in different parts of the world and their importance and impact on daily activities of citizens cannot be over emphasized. Before the independence of Nigeria in 1960, public relations practice was not popular because only a few Nigerians know wha...Continue Reading »

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• 58. BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATION ON NIGERIAN DEVELOPMENT

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the Study Nigeria as a nation state is under a severe internal socio economic and security threat. As a more general level, the threat has social, economic, political and environmental dimensions. Each of these dimensions has greatly affected the nation’s stability, and can be traced to the ethnic militia armies, ethnic and religious conflicts, poverty,...Continue Reading »

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• 59. CONFLICTS AND CONFLICTS RESOLUTIONS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS ADMINISTRATION

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Conflict have become almost normal and regular between principals of secondary schools in Imo State and the teachers under them. This has no doubt retarded the success of the administration of the institution in particular and the state educational system at large. Mullins (1999; 816) sees conflict as a reality of management and organizational behav...Continue Reading »

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• 60. CONTROL OF CRIME AND PREVENTION IN THE SOCIETY

  » CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Crime is a canker worm; it is a virus that has eaten deeply into the marrows and bones of every society. Crime is from the Latin world “Crimen” meaning accusation or fault. It has become a household word in many parts in Africa and has terrible and social problems in the world. This crime has various definitions in society. Some individu...Continue Reading »

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