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Changing Religious Influences, Young People, Crime and Extremism in Nigeria

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Youth crime is a trend that is bedevilling various countries of the world in varying degrees and affects human, regional and national development. This is a problem particularly in sub-Saharan Africa which has a very young population estimated at 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 years and it has the fastest population group in the world (Ighobor 2013). Young people constitute an important stratum of the make-up of developing countries. For any emerging country to attain its development goals, it must address youth restiveness and crime by reducing its rate of recurrence.

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    ‘Kofi Anan: Abiola’s Death Was Suspicious’ www.thisdaylive.com (19 October 2012). Accessed 21 September 2015.

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    Dr Perry Stanislas hosted the Community Security Symposium held at De Montfort University in February 2012. The symposium explored the manner in which to protect communities in the developing and other parts of the world where state agencies were unable or unwilling to. Among the deliberations was a paper by former Air Vice Marshal Danbaba on mobilising local communities in the face of the Boko Haram threat.

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Stanislas, P., Iyah, I. (2016). Changing Religious Influences, Young People, Crime and Extremism in Nigeria. In: Sadique, K., Stanislas, P. (eds) Religion, Faith and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45620-5_15

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