Assessing the Impacts of Various Street-Level Characteristics on the Burden of Urban Burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria, 2014

Cheshire, James (2024). Assessing the Impacts of Various Street-Level Characteristics on the Burden of Urban Burglary in Kaduna, Nigeria, 2014. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-857541

This mixed-methods research aims to bring together key development concerns related to sustainable livelihoods, social vulnerability, and poverty to build an alternative account of 'insecurity and crime' in African cities where the lines between legality and illegality, formality and informality, licit and illicit work, are often blurred in practice. We argue that the study of insecurity and crime in African cities requires a more nuanced understanding of African urbanisation patterns and historical legacies of uneven development. Situated at the nexus of population modelling, criminology, African studies, and urban geography, this project aims to challenge prevailing Euro-centric narratives of crime and victimisation through an innovative mixed-methods study. Combining statistical modelling, geovisualisation and ethnographic insights, the research aims to develop location appropriate approaches to investigate perceptions and seasonal trends of crime and victimisations in a West African city, situating the research within the broader context of African urbanisation, environment-induced seasonal migration, youth un-employment and informal economies.

Data description (abstract)

Evidence suggests that crimes committed in urban environments are geographically concentrated across a range of scales, and that the variation in rates of crime within an urban space is significantly dependent on the physical environment as well as the situation in which the crime takes place. However, these assertions are typically drawn from environmental criminological studies that have focussed on Euro-American cities and western intellectual perspectives. We seek to move beyond these by focussing on a second-tier city in sub-Saharan Africa (Kaduna, Nigeria), a context for which very little literature exists. The deposited dataset was used to examine the association between a range of street characteristics and the risk of residential burglary in Kaduna for the first time.

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Cheshire James	UCL	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4552-5989

Sponsors:

ESRC

Grant reference:

ES/R001596/1

Topic classification:

Law, crime and legal systems
Social welfare policy and systems

Keywords:

GEOGRAPHY, CRIME AND SECURITY, URBAN AREAS, NIGERIA

Project title:

Development frontiers in crime, livelihoods and urban poverty in Nigeria (FCLP)

Grant holders:

James Cheshire, Umar Faisal, Ahmed Adamu, Thieme Tatiana

Project dates:

From	To
19 January 2018	22 February 2019

Date published:

20 Nov 2024 10:50

Last modified:

20 Nov 2024 10:51

Coverage and Methodology

Access and Administration

Data sourcing, processing and preparation:

The data for this research originated from a comprehensive crime survey that took place between March and June of 2014 within the study area but that pre-dates the funded study. From the 13,687 properties surveyed for the Block Environmental Inventory (BEI), a sub-sample of 3294 properties were selected for a more detailed household crime victimization survey. This gathered 46 different attributes in total to capture the social and demographic characteristics of each household, of which 14 attributes describe how respondents perceive crime and safety in their area including 4 criminality outcomes on victimization experience (residential burglary, theft, automobile vandalism and car theft). As part of this study these data were validated and prior to being used they were anonymized and aggregated to the street network.

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