Violence in Nigeria A qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Otros Autores: Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine (Editor)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Leiden, Ibadan IFRA-Nigeria 2016
• Colección: WAPOSO Series
• Materias: Violence in society; violence; conflicts; crime; crime statistics; quantitative data analysis
• Acceso en línea: 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...