Paul Oluwatosin Bello
Biographic Data
| ID | 1115985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Oluwatosin Bello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Oluwatosin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bello |
| SIGNATURE | BELLO P O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0039-8365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample
The Use of Force Within the ‘Four Walls’ and Trust in Correctional Officials
Exploring the influence of socio-demographic context on prejudice towards migrants in Lagos, Nigeria
This article investigates the effect of socio-demographic factors on prejudice towards migrants in Lagos, Nigeria. In recent times, Nigeria has faced a myriad of security challenges exacerbated by the influx of undocumented migrants from the Sahel region of Africa and unskilled people from the northern parts of the country. This invasion has significant security implications for the state and shapes how communities perceive the new arrivals. We s…
University students’ accounts of police use of force
This empirical research explores the effect of police use of excessive force on university students’ trust in the police. Although the use of force by the police has continued to resonate in academic discourse, particularly from developed Western societies, the challenge is that there is a dearth of empirical research that precisely measures police use of excessive force among university students and how it shapes their trust in the police. The f…
Domestic violence against men
This study explored the forms of domestic violence experienced by men in contemporary South Africa.Domestic violence is mostly portrayed as a crime perpetrated by men against women.The harsh reality, however, is that women are also culprits and active participants in the commission of the crime.Unfortunately, a heavy silence masks this assertion, and only a few studies give credence to this, particularly in South Africa.From the findings of a jus…
Perception of Correctional Officers’ Legitimacy in South African Correctional Centers
Studies from developed western societies have shown that the legitimacy of correctional officers is pivotal to incarcerated offenders’ voluntary compliance and deference. However, we are uncertain if such an assertion holds for incarcerated offenders in transitional African correctional settings, such as South Africa. From a cross-sectional survey of participants from selected correctional centers in South Africa (Male = 89.6%; African = 85.1%; M…
Perceived legitimacy or dull compulsion? Assessing why incarcerated offenders comply with correctional rules
Generally, research has shown that offenders’ compliance with correctional rules is motivated mainly by the belief that correction officers are legitimate and should be obeyed. There are also contentions that, in correctional settings with widespread violence and abuse, compliance may not necessarily be driven by the persuasion that correctional officers are legitimate but by feelings of endemic helplessness (a condition that is described as dull…
Socio-economic dynamism and the expansion of child kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria
Generally, kidnapping of children for ransom is a global menace and Nigeria is not an exception. Measures adopted by the State to combat the scourge have not really been effective. From the compilation of journal articles and corpus of media reports, this article examines the encumbrances within the socio-economic milieu that engender the growth of child kidnapping in Nigeria. Emile Durkheim’s Anomie theory and Robert Merton’s Strain theory of cr…
Factors influencing incarcerated offenders’ perceptions of correctional officers in South African correctional centres
This article reports on an empirical study that examined incarcerated offenders’ perceptions of correctional officers in selected correctional centres in South Africa. Broadly, correctional officers require the voluntary compliance and cooperation of incarcerated offenders to realise the goals of the custodial institutions. But the perennial incidences of violence, abuse and brutality, and other forms of misconduct by correctional officers toward…
The Effects of Procedural Justice on Obligation to Obey, and Compliance among Incarcerated Offenders in South Africa
This study explores the impacts of procedural justice on incarcerated offenders’ obligation to obey, and compliance with correctional rules and procedures in selected South African correctional centers. The Tylerian process-based regulation model holds that compliance with legal authorities is contingent upon some normative and instrumental factors. While these factors have been considered to shape compliance among inmates in correctional centers…
Effective Response to Human Trafficking in South Africa
Humanitarian concerns owing to the dreadfulness and impact of human trafficking prompted several stakeholders under the umbrella of the United Nations (UN) to approve legal measures to criminalize this menace. Several states that are parties to the UN anti-trafficking protocols and conventions have domesticated some of the provisions of these regulations by enacting comprehensive laws that criminalize the various components of human trafficking. …
Missing in action
This article explores the pervasiveness of employee absenteeism in the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the station level and the factors that contribute to it. Employee absenteeism is a critical problem for most organisations and the SAPS is no exception. While measures have been put in place to curb this problem in the SAPS by the police authorities, employee absenteeism has persisted and remains a significant problem for the SAPS in cont…
Exploring procedural justice, obligation to obey and cooperation with the police in a sample of university students
This study scrutinizes the applicability of the Tylerian process-based model of regulation to the South African context. In any democracy, the police do not operate in isolation, but rely on public obedience and cooperation for the actualisation of their constitutional responsibilities. Previous studies on obligation to obey and cooperate with the police have focused on the general population with less consideration for specific component of the …
Procedural justice, police legitimacy, and performance
This study explored notions of procedural justice and police legitimacy among university students in South Africa. We surveyed 482 South African university students (female =77.6%; black = 91.7%; mean age = 23.0 years, SD = 1.05 years) on the effect of procedural justice and other factors on their perception of police legitimacy. Following hierarchical regression analysis, we found that those who held the view that the police are effective in cri…
Do people still repose confidence in the police? Assessing the effects of public experience of police corruption in South Africa
This empirical study explores police corruption, and measure whether public experience of police corruption predict confidence in the police. Police legitimacy is often built on public confidence, but when the actions of the police are fraught with corruption, the confidence reposed on it by the public will be eroded. Studies have also demonstrated that public experience of police corruption undermine the ethos and image of the police. While this…
What predicts university students’ compliance with the law
Studies on police legitimacy, particularly from the developed western societies have shown that compliance with the law is primarily shaped by feelings that laws and legal authorities are legitimate and should be obeyed. However, we are unsure whether such findings would be consistent if tested among university students in a transitional society like South Africa where police-students relationship is driven by conflict, and where police misconduc…
The enforcement of anti-human trafficking law in South Africa
This article evaluates the effectiveness of current law enforcement efforts in combating human trafficking in South Africa. Based on a broader empirical doctoral study, it was discovered that as currently structured, the South African Police Service (SAPS) cannot be effective in the enforcement of anti-trafficking law in the country. Combating human trafficking among other things, requires a formidable law enforcement agency that is explicitly pr…
Do people still repose confidence in the police? Assessing the effects of public experience of police corruption in South Africa
This empirical study explores police corruption, and measure whether public experience of police corruption predict confidence in the police. Police legitimacy is often built on public confidence, but when the actions of the police are fraught with corruption, the confidence reposed on it by the public will be eroded. Studies have also demonstrated that public experience of police corruption undermine the ethos and image of the police. While this…
The enforcement of anti-human trafficking law in South Africa
This article evaluates the effectiveness of current law enforcement efforts in combating human trafficking in South Africa. Based on a broader empirical doctoral study, it was discovered that as currently structured, the South African Police Service (SAPS) cannot be effective in the enforcement of anti-trafficking law in the country. Combating human trafficking among other things, requires a formidable law enforcement agency that is explicitly pr…
What predicts university students’ compliance with the law
Studies on police legitimacy, particularly from the developed western societies have shown that compliance with the law is primarily shaped by feelings that laws and legal authorities are legitimate and should be obeyed. However, we are unsure whether such findings would be consistent if tested among university students in a transitional society like South Africa where police-students relationship is driven by conflict, and where police misconduc…
Missing in action
This article explores the pervasiveness of employee absenteeism in the South African Police Service (SAPS) at the station level and the factors that contribute to it. Employee absenteeism is a critical problem for most organisations and the SAPS is no exception. While measures have been put in place to curb this problem in the SAPS by the police authorities, employee absenteeism has persisted and remains a significant problem for the SAPS in cont…
Exploring procedural justice, obligation to obey and cooperation with the police in a sample of university students
This study scrutinizes the applicability of the Tylerian process-based model of regulation to the South African context. In any democracy, the police do not operate in isolation, but rely on public obedience and cooperation for the actualisation of their constitutional responsibilities. Previous studies on obligation to obey and cooperate with the police have focused on the general population with less consideration for specific component of the …
Procedural justice, police legitimacy, and performance
This study explored notions of procedural justice and police legitimacy among university students in South Africa. We surveyed 482 South African university students (female =77.6%; black = 91.7%; mean age = 23.0 years, SD = 1.05 years) on the effect of procedural justice and other factors on their perception of police legitimacy. Following hierarchical regression analysis, we found that those who held the view that the police are effective in cri…
Do people still repose confidence in the police? Assessing the effects of public experience of police corruption in South Africa
This empirical study explores police corruption, and measure whether public experience of police corruption predict confidence in the police. Police legitimacy is often built on public confidence, but when the actions of the police are fraught with corruption, the confidence reposed on it by the public will be eroded. Studies have also demonstrated that public experience of police corruption undermine the ethos and image of the police. While this…
Socio-economic dynamism and the expansion of child kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria
Generally, kidnapping of children for ransom is a global menace and Nigeria is not an exception. Measures adopted by the State to combat the scourge have not really been effective. From the compilation of journal articles and corpus of media reports, this article examines the encumbrances within the socio-economic milieu that engender the growth of child kidnapping in Nigeria. Emile Durkheim’s Anomie theory and Robert Merton’s Strain theory of cr…
Factors influencing incarcerated offenders’ perceptions of correctional officers in South African correctional centres
This article reports on an empirical study that examined incarcerated offenders’ perceptions of correctional officers in selected correctional centres in South Africa. Broadly, correctional officers require the voluntary compliance and cooperation of incarcerated offenders to realise the goals of the custodial institutions. But the perennial incidences of violence, abuse and brutality, and other forms of misconduct by correctional officers toward…
The Effects of Procedural Justice on Obligation to Obey, and Compliance among Incarcerated Offenders in South Africa
This study explores the impacts of procedural justice on incarcerated offenders’ obligation to obey, and compliance with correctional rules and procedures in selected South African correctional centers. The Tylerian process-based regulation model holds that compliance with legal authorities is contingent upon some normative and instrumental factors. While these factors have been considered to shape compliance among inmates in correctional centers…
Effective Response to Human Trafficking in South Africa
Humanitarian concerns owing to the dreadfulness and impact of human trafficking prompted several stakeholders under the umbrella of the United Nations (UN) to approve legal measures to criminalize this menace. Several states that are parties to the UN anti-trafficking protocols and conventions have domesticated some of the provisions of these regulations by enacting comprehensive laws that criminalize the various components of human trafficking. …
Perception of Correctional Officers’ Legitimacy in South African Correctional Centers
Studies from developed western societies have shown that the legitimacy of correctional officers is pivotal to incarcerated offenders’ voluntary compliance and deference. However, we are uncertain if such an assertion holds for incarcerated offenders in transitional African correctional settings, such as South Africa. From a cross-sectional survey of participants from selected correctional centers in South Africa (Male = 89.6%; African = 85.1%; M…
Perceived legitimacy or dull compulsion? Assessing why incarcerated offenders comply with correctional rules
Generally, research has shown that offenders’ compliance with correctional rules is motivated mainly by the belief that correction officers are legitimate and should be obeyed. There are also contentions that, in correctional settings with widespread violence and abuse, compliance may not necessarily be driven by the persuasion that correctional officers are legitimate but by feelings of endemic helplessness (a condition that is described as dull…
Domestic violence against men
This study explored the forms of domestic violence experienced by men in contemporary South Africa.Domestic violence is mostly portrayed as a crime perpetrated by men against women.The harsh reality, however, is that women are also culprits and active participants in the commission of the crime.Unfortunately, a heavy silence masks this assertion, and only a few studies give credence to this, particularly in South Africa.From the findings of a jus…
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample
The Use of Force Within the ‘Four Walls’ and Trust in Correctional Officials
Exploring the influence of socio-demographic context on prejudice towards migrants in Lagos, Nigeria
This article investigates the effect of socio-demographic factors on prejudice towards migrants in Lagos, Nigeria. In recent times, Nigeria has faced a myriad of security challenges exacerbated by the influx of undocumented migrants from the Sahel region of Africa and unskilled people from the northern parts of the country. This invasion has significant security implications for the state and shapes how communities perceive the new arrivals. We s…
University students’ accounts of police use of force
This empirical research explores the effect of police use of excessive force on university students’ trust in the police. Although the use of force by the police has continued to resonate in academic discourse, particularly from developed Western societies, the challenge is that there is a dearth of empirical research that precisely measures police use of excessive force among university students and how it shapes their trust in the police. The f…
Political science (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works)