How Might We Prevent Youth Crime?: Lessons From Research in Nigeria

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Author(s): Don John Omale (University of Derby, UK)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 16
Source title: Juvenile Justice in African and Western Criminal Justice Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Simeon Peter Sungi (United States International University-Africa, Kenya)and Henry K. Murigi (Pan-African Christian University, Kenya)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9343-4.ch004

Keywords: Criminal Science & Corrections / General Law / Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics

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Youth crime is a problem throughout the world and the most common methods of dealing with it often rely on retribution and imprisonment as the ultimate goals. This approach of “warehousing” youths through the institution of prison has been argued to undermine sustainable youth development and crime prevention. This paper and its findings are adapted by the author from his earlier field survey on: “Opinions of victims of crime and criminal justice professionals” conducted in Nigeria (Omale, 2009), and suggests initiatives to tackle this problem. A total number of 151 respondents comprising 74 victims of crime and 77 professionals of the criminal justice system took part in this study. This paper is evidence-based research; with a review of relevant literature to support its argument. The paper highlights some theoretical explanations (with a focus on sociological positivism and social constructionism) to explain the complex interaction of the variables which might be implicitly and explicitly implicated in youth offending behaviour in Nigeria and globally.

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