Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa

Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement

Usman A. Tar, Dawud Muhammad Dawud

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978777880
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on the Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into the trends and patterns of crime and insurgency in contemporary African society. In Africa criminals and insurgents are becoming more resourceful, smart, and connected, as criminal syndicates are increasingly deploying modern technologies to commit crimes in ways and manners that are profoundly daring, and on a transnational and global scale. Meanwhile, the capacity of local, state, and security forces to stem the tide of crimes and insurgencies is decimated by dwindling resources on the part of the state due to official corruption, down-sizing of public institutions and a fierce competition for resources between security and other developmental agencies. In this volume, the contributors, who are expert academics in policing and security in Africa as well as security practitioners, provide detailed explanations of the new wave of crime, characterized by cyber insecurity, terror financing, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, and transnational networking among criminal syndicates. The volume forensically explores how these complex waves and emerging trends of criminality and insurgency impact on the socio-economic and political development of Africa. Editors, Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad Dawud highlight how these factors affect and shape policing and law enforcement in an era of "smart crimes" and insurgency within the continent.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Policing Crime and Insurgency in Africa
• Chapter 2: Theories of Policing and Their Relevance in Controlling Crime and Insurgency in Contemporary Africa
• Chapter 3: Historical Development of Police and Policing in Africa
• Chapter 4: Emerging Crimes and the Challenges of Policing in Africa
• Chapter 5: Police Reforms, Crime Prevention, and Counter-Terrorism in Africa: The Kenyan Experience
• Chapter 6: Police and Popular Discontent: Perspectives on End SARS Movement in Nigeria and Its Implication on Policing in Africa
• Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Radicalization and Insurgency in Africa
• Chapter 8: Pattern of Crimes and Insecurity in Africa
• Chapter 9: Transnational Human Trafficking and Policing in Africa
• Chapter 10: Arms Trafficking, Conflicts, and Policing Illicit Small Arms in Africa
• Chapter 11: Gender-Based Violence and Policing the Vulnerable in Africa
• Chapter 12: Technology, Financial Crimes, and Policing in Africa
• Chapter 13: Policing Borderlands in Africa
• Chapter 14: Policing Oil Theft in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
• Chapter 15: Illegal Mining, Conflicts, and Policing in Africa
• Chapter 16: Maritime Policing and Illegal Fishing in West Africa: Implications for Environmental and Human Security
• Chapter 17: Policing Contraband and Drugs Trafficking in African Borders and Ports
• Chapter 18: Intelligence-Led Policing, Criminality, and Counterinsurgency in Africa
• Chapter 19: Chasing the Bad Guys: Policing Terrorism and Insurgency in Nigeria
• Chapter 20: Agrarian Question, Resource Conflict, and Communal Policing in Africa
• Chapter 21: Community Policing and Community-Based Security Regimes in Africa
• Chapter 22: The Future Trajectories of Policing in Africa
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors