Internal security management in Nigeria : perspectives, challenges and lessons /

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Imprint:Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 673 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11931314
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Other authors / contributors:Oshita, Oshita O., editor.
Alumona, Ikenna Mike, editor.
Onuoha, Freedom Chukwudi, editor.
ISBN:9789811382154
9811382158
981138214X
9789811382147
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2019).
Summary:This book explores the disturbing dimensions of the problem of insecurity in Nigeria, such as herdsmen violence, the Boko Haram insurgency, cybercrime, militancy in the Niger Delta, communal conflict and violence, as well as police corruption. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the theoretical foundations of internal security, the threats to internal security, the role of formal and informal agencies in internal security management and the challenges of internal security management.
Other form:Print version: Internal security management in Nigeria. Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] 981138214X 9789811382147