Areal Differentiation in Crime in Public Transit Terminals in Ibadan Metropolis
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2012
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Journal of Transportation Security
Abstract
The unprecedented rate of urbanization in the twentieth and twenty- first
century in most less developed countries (LDC) is coming at a huge cost to cities in these
countries chief among which are distorted morphologies, dysfunctional infrastructural
system and ever-increasing crime rate, In Ibadan metropolis one of the infrastructure that
has been subject of this systemic abuse are the public transit terminals, this study
analyses the incidences of crime,the spatial pattern of their occurrences and the nature
of crime which are prevalent in and around major road transit terminals, statistical
records of crime incidences and data on crime experiences of two hundred and fifty
respondents were analyzed statistically and descriptively, the findings revealed that
crime rate, the nature and pattern of occurrence varied spatially within the metropolitan
parks, recommendations on how best to safe-guard the parks are subsequently made
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Crime incidence, Spatial pattern, Transit terminals, Metropolis, Infrastructural decay