Generally, kidnapping of children for ransom is a global menace and Nigeria is not an
exception. Measures adopted by the State to combat the scourge have not really been …

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Objectives Research consistently shows that crime concentrates on a few repeatedly
victimized places and targets. In this paper we examine whether the same is true for …

This paper contributes to the literature on capital flight by investigating the relationship
between kidnapping rate and capital flight in developing countries. Numerous empirical …

As the rate of crime decelerates in the developed world, the opposite phenomenon is being
observed in the developing world, including Latin America and the Caribbean. Crime in …

Safety on the roads has become a major concern in recent days. Travellers prefer to avoid
road inconveniences that may occur from crime incidents, street harassment, protests or riots …

Maritime piracy has been a worldwide problem for decades before starting gradual declines
around 2011. Situational crime prevention (SCP) techniques have been shown to reduce …

This paper proposes a broad approach to the study of criminal behavior through time using
states as the units of analysis. In doing so, it argues that when a specific crime is targeted in …

Kidnapping has become one of the main security threats in the Nigerian state and hardly
does a day go by without report of missing person across the length and breadth of the …

Traditional route planning and k nearest neighbors queries only consider distance or travel
time and ignore road safety altogether. However, many travellers prefer to avoid risky or …