Policing Criminality and Insurgency in Africa: Perspectives on Changing Wave of Law Enforcement provides critical insights into the trends and patterns of crime and insurgency in contemporary African society. In Africa criminals and insurgents are becoming more resourceful, smart, and connected, as criminal syndicates are increasingly deploying modern technologies to commit crimes in ways and manners that are profoundly daring, and on a transnational and global scale. Meanwhile, the capacity of local, state, and security forces to stem the tide of crimes and insurgencies is decimated by dwindling resources on the part of the state due to official corruption, down-sizing of public institutions and a fierce competition for resources between security and other developmental agencies. In this volume, the contributors, who are expert academics in policing and security in Africa as well as security practitioners, provide detailed explanations of the new wave of crime, characterized by cyber insecurity, terror financing, the proliferation of small arms and light weapons, and transnational networking among criminal syndicates. The volume forensically explores how these complex waves and emerging trends of criminality and insurgency impact on the socio-economic and political development of Africa. Editors, Usman A. Tar and Dawud Muhammad Dawud highlight how these factors affect and shape policing and law enforcement in an era of "smart crimes" and insurgency within the continent.
Usman A. Tar is endowed professor of defense and security studies at the Nigerian Defence Academy. Dawud Muhammad Dawud is a police officer and a PhD researcher of defense and strategic studies in the Department of Political Science and Defence Studies at the Nigerian Defence Academy.
List of Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgement List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Policing Crime and Insurgency in Africa Usman A. Tar and Dawud M. Dawud Chapter 2: Theories of Policing and their Relevance in Controlling Crime and Insurgency in Contemporary Africa Aliyu Yero Chapter 3: Historical Development of Police and Policing in Africa Hussaini Jibrin and Umar A. Yandaki Chapter 4: Emerging Crimes and Challenges of Policing in Africa Chris M. Kwaja Chapter 5: Police Reforms, Crime Prevention and Counter-Terrorism in Africa: The Kenyan Experience Sunday Adejoh and Muhammad S. Lawal Chapter 6: Policing and Popular Discontent: Perspectives on End SARS Movement in Nigeria and its Implication on Policing in Africa Dawud M. Dawud Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Radicalization and Insurgency in Africa Dauda Abubakar Chapter 8: Pattern of Fear and Incidence of Crimes and Insecurity in Africa Etenaibe Alemika Chapter 9:Trans-National Human Trafficking and Policing in Africa Aliyu M. Katsina Chapter 10: Arms Trafficking, Conflicts and Policing Illicit Arms in Africa Chukwuzitara J. Uchegbu and Jonathan S. Maiangwa Chapter 11: Gender-based Violence and Policing the Vulnerable in Africa Nachanaa A. David and Maryam Hamza Chapter 12:Technology, Financial Crimes and Policing in Africa Babagana Bashir and Babakura Bashir Chapter 13:Policing Borderlands in Africa Anthony Israel Rufus Chapter 14:Policing Oil Theft in Nigeria's Niger Delta Region Freedom Onuoha, Ezinne Iroezumuo, and Amarachi R. Onuoha Chapter 15:Illegal Mining, Conflicts and Policing in Africa Aisha A. Kana and Nathaniel. G. Goki Chapter 16:Maritime Policing and Illegal Fishing in West Africa: Implications for Environmental and Human Security Jude Cocodia Chapter 17:Policing Contraband and Drugs Trafficking in African Borders and Ports Mubarak A. Mashi and Bashir Bala Chapter 18:Intelligence-Led Policing, Criminality and Counterinsurgency Abraham N. Thomas Chapter 19:Chasing the Bad Guys: Policing Terrorism and Insurgency in Nigeria Dawud M. Dawud and Usman A. Tar Chapter 20:Agrarian Question, Resource Conflict and Communal Policing in Africa Chinasa A. Ugwuanyi and Olayinka Kazeem Chapter 21:Community Policing and Community Based Security Regime in Africa Dorcas O. Ettang and Gbadeyan James Chapter 22:The Future Trajectories of Policing in Africa Dawud M. Dawud and Usman A. Tar Index About the Contributors
"This edited book offers fresh and authoritative insights into the criminality-insurgency nexus, the changing patterns of crime, as well as the imperatives of policing crime in all its contemporary ramifications in Africa. A must read for all African security sector specialists and practitioners!" -- Kenneth Omeje, North-West University and University of South Africa
