"Bad friends" doing armed robbery in Nigeria: a theoretical and methodological exploration

There is a lack of literature specifically about ‘bad friends’ involvement in an armed robbery in Nigeria. Apparently, those who call themselves ‘bad friends’ are conscious that they do things illegal or criminal in the eyes of the law. Nevertheless, those who commit armed robbery in Nigeria do so i...

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Autor principal: Nwalozie, Chijioke J. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2024
En: Southernising criminology
Año: 2024, Páginas: 228-252
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520 |a There is a lack of literature specifically about ‘bad friends’ involvement in an armed robbery in Nigeria. Apparently, those who call themselves ‘bad friends’ are conscious that they do things illegal or criminal in the eyes of the law. Nevertheless, those who commit armed robbery in Nigeria do so in a group or network. This qualitative study of 20 male armed robbers in a Nigerian prison reveals that the main reason behind their armed robbery operations is the association of ‘bad friends’, who suffer widespread disenfranchisement due to the country’s unjust social structure. The irony of the Nigerian social structure is that anyone, rich or poor, big or small, influential or not, can achieve their goals through illegitimate means if they wish. It is not because they cannot follow the legitimate path but because a lawless society gives rise to such. Recourse to anomie-strain theory has helped explain this type of criminality. However, it has not fully explained armed robbery in Nigeria hence the need for a Nigerian theory of crime. Finally, this chapter uses pidgin or broken English (non-conventional English language or dialect spoken by some African countries) to explain bad friends’ involvement in an armed robbery in Nigeria. Such an application has created novelty and boosted criminological research in African countries like Nigeria. A language is an essential tool that identifies a particular people or culture. Nigeria is a multi-tribal and multi-lingual country. In such diversity, the common ground for most people to interact with each other (except a limited number of illiterates) is by speaking pidgin or broken English – a debased form of conventional English. 
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