Violence in Nigeria A qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Autres auteurs: Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine (Éditeur intellectuel)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Leiden, Ibadan IFRA-Nigeria 2016
• Collection: WAPOSO Series
• Sujets: Violence in society; violence; conflicts; crime; crime statistics; quantitative data analysis
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Most of the academic literature on violence in Nigeria is qualitative. It rarely relies on quantitative data because police crime statistics are not reliable, or not available, or not even published. Moreover, the training of Nigerian social scientists often focuses on qualitative, cultural, and pol...