Police Brutality in Nigeria and the End SARS Protest of 2020: The Issue of Stereotyped Criminal Profiling
By: Emaediong Ofonime Akpan Esq. (LL.M) Email: akpanemaediongofonime@gmail.com. The Genesis The trio of Robert Park, Ernest Burgess and Louis Wirth in the early twentieth century must have seen a vision of the Nigerian society when they asserted that social forces create criminal interactions. In their opinion, criminal behaviour was not a function of personal traits
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Police Brutality in Nigeria: A Holistic Approach Towards Lasting Solutions
Introduction In recent days, Nigerian citizens, especially the youth have taken to the streets to protest against police brutality in Nigeria. Although the beam light of the protest is on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police Force, the bigger and ultimate goal of the protest is a complete overhaul and reform of
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