Délinquance juvénile et urbanisation au Niger et au Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3618889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Danielle Poitou (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 81 |
| Pages | 111-127 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/cea.1981.2304 |
| OpenAlex | W2325393114 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 3 |
D. Poitou—Juvenile Delinquency and Urbanization in Niger and Nigeria. Among the factors contributing to the growth of juvenile delinquency in West Africa, urbanization and the change from a traditional to an urban way of life play an essential role. The first part of this paper shows why delinquency is a primarily urban phenomenon and how the city per se can be considered as crime-generating. The sharply contrasted examples of Niger and Nigeria, at the opposite ends of the urbanization spectrum, reveal the operation of the processes which contribute to the worsening of unbalance and dysfunction in a context of uncontrolled urban growth. In both countries, in spite of their different characteristics, it seems that urban juvenile delinquency is chiefly the resuit of an anomic situation stemming from the disruption of traditional family and community life
Biology · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Juvenile · Juvenile delinquency · Sociology · Urbanization · Ecology · Gambling Behavior and Treatments
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |