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    AGBERO” REPUBLIC: TOUTS AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IN KARU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASARAWA STATE, NIGERIA
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-09-01) Abdullahi, Kassims Adams; Injah, Christian MizaDabbson; Odofin, Felix Oluwayanmife
    The paper examined touts activities and the nature of crime in Karu Local Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design and purposive sampling procedure to select informants from Mararaba under bridge and Masaka U-turn in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. In-depth-interview was the instrument used for information gathering which was analyzed non-numerically using content analysis. Findings from this study show that touts activities are usually disruptive in the study area; they usually attack their victim with different weapons and cart away their belongings. The paper concluded that, touts activities has severely disrupted security situation as well as sky-rocketed crime such as: looting, killings, raping, thurggery, and street violence, pick pocketing among others in Karu Local Government Area. The paper recommended investigation of touts activities and arrest, and community collaboration as a way of controlling and preventing criminal activities by touts in the area.
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    COMMUNAL INITIATIVE TOWARDS CRIME CONTROL AND PREVENTION IN KEFFI TOWNSHIP, KEFFI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NASA RAW A STATE-NIGERIA
    (Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-04-04) Abdullahi, Kassims Adams; Yahaya, Sabo Sarkin Noma
    Since the dawn of human civilization, crime has been a reoccurring problem. There is hardly any society in the world today without the challenges of crime. This paper examines the communal initiative towards crime control and prevention in Keffi Township, Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State-Nigeria. The social survey research design was adopted for this paper. Data were collected using quantitative and qualitative methods. 101 questionnaires were distributed and 99 retrieved from respondents from four selected elect or al wards in Keffi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State-Nigeria, through simple random techniques. The technique used in the analysis of data for the paper was the quantitative data analyzed using univariate analysis for this study. Data collected showed that loss of lives and properties are implications of crime and criminality among the residents of the study areas and mobilization of the private security group and private neighborhood patrol team are the two top measures often taken by residents of the area to control and prevent crime occurrence. The paper recommends that there is a need to adjust our political and economic system to alleviate poverty. Alleviating and alleviating absolute poverty from our society will go a long way to not only reduce the menace of crime but also reduced the rate of its occurrence.