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Investigative Resources on Crime Rate in Nigeria

Dr. Nwinadum Gbenenee

Abstract

The modern world is everything but a safe place. This sad but indisputable fact has been proven to be true by several researches. Crime rate is souring in this part of the continent and there exists many determinants to this anti-societal behavior amongst the people. In this assignment) those variables that are crime prone in Nigeria were determined using an Investigative Resource Approach (IRA); a Technique that is used to reduce the dimensionality of a large number of interrelated crime variables while retaining as much of the information as possible. Data were collected on three crime and safety report from the data bank-of Bureau of Diplomatic Security (BDS) USA. The highest and most committed crime in the country are Armed Robbery) Money laundering and Kidnapping.

Keywords

InvestigationResourcesCrime RateSecurityKidnapping

References

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