Geo-Quantitative Analysis of Violent Crime Intervention Strategies in Kaduna State, Nigeria
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2023
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Department of Geography Education, University of Jember
Abstract
The complexities and consequences of violent crimes require a robust and
effective approach to achieve a sustainable reduction of violence in our
society. This paper, therefore, presents an avenue to provide the geo-
quantitative analysis of violent occurrences in Kaduna State of Nigeria to
determine the pragmatic interventionist strategies for managing violent crime
incidence among the people of the study area. Geo-quantitative analysis
entails transforming numerical data about criminal activities into a map of
proportional circles to depict the distribution pattern of criminal activities and
using scree plots and factor loading to show higher-order intervention
measures for managing violent crimes. Five Local Government Areas (LGAs)
with relatively high levels of violent incidence were purposively selected while
snowball sampling method was used to administer questionnaires to 384
respondents. From the findings, the spatial distribution of violent crimes
revealed that Birni-Gwari and Kachia LGAs accounted for the highest incidence
of kidnapping and village raids respectively while Kajuru LGA is known for the
highest cases of cattle rustling and armed robbery. The critical interventions in
managing violent crimes are reconciliation efforts to restore order and
normalcy, negotiation between aggrieved parties, and adoption of a
traditional conflict resolution system with a rotated factor matrix of 0.828,
0.581, and 0.544 respectively. Furthermore, the strongest positive correlation
exists between good government policies and equity with fairness in
representation and establishment of developmental projects (r = 0.524, and p
˂ 0.001). Therefore, the study recommended establishing conflict mediation
centers across the communities. Similarly, it is essential to have a good
governance system that will give people their fair share of national resources
and adequate policing of communities that could guarantee the reduction of
violent incidents to the barest minimum.
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Violence, crime, intervention, mediation, government policy
Citation
Ubogu, A.E., Yahaya, O.Y., Adamu, K.G., Ibrahim, A. and Malik, N.A (2023): Geo- Quantitative Analysis of Violent Crime Intervention Strategies in kaduna State, Nigeria. Geosfera Indonesia 8(3) 332-346.