Criminal Victimization in Urban and Rural Nigeria

That criminal victimisation is directly related to urbanisation with a teller that the latter precipitates the former by reason of various socio-political as well as geo-sociological factors is obvious. Even on the flipside of this assertion that the extent of criminal victimisation is directly covariated with the nature of urbanisation is to say the obvious, as well. Thus, in terms of the temporal order, both the nature of urbanisation and the outcomes of it in relation to social relations have reverse urban-crime-causational nexus. It is commonplace knowledge that urban areas have relatively more incidences of criminality compared to rural areas. Too often, it is argued that urban ecologies have complicated factors that make the commission of criminal acts more readily than areas described as rural or less urbanised. However, scholars and researchers often leave out the concentration thesis of density out of the equation. Rural areas have fewer persons living per square kilometer of land. They have fewer things to steal from. They have wider spaces to not march the proverbial 'someone else's feet' and thereby not breed quarrel. And so forth and so forth.