Law and Order Blues

Abstract

This paper discusses law and order politics and policy in Australia. It challenges the conventional criminological wisdom that Australia does not have a serious crime problem. It argues that, while political responses to crime are all too frequently irrational, this is not because Australian state and territory governments so often rely on punitive law and order policies. Australian law and order policy is irrational because it usually lacks any clear rationale, is rarely subjected to any effectiveness or cost-effectiveness evaluation, frequently ignores the possibility of unintended side-effects and is occasionally founded on a misdiagnosis of the crime problem that prompts it. The paper concludes by discussing various explanations for this state of affairs and what can be done about it.

Lift above Poverty Micro-Finance Bank, Rural-Women Financial Security and Crime Reduction Strategies in Nigeria: Evaluation of Selected Communities in Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria

“…The World Poverty Clock uses indices like income, distribution and production supply by the World Bank and IMF .In the late 1980s LAPO Micro Finance Bank was established primary to give the people access to affordable loans to boost their financial security, the organization has recorded huge success in terms of provision of soft credit facilities to people at the grassroots, most of the beneficiaries of the loans were rural women who have been evidently applied them to establish small and medium enterprises thereby reduce poverty which most of the government establishments failed to achieved for many years. The study conducted by Armstrong and Zegher (2006), supported by Weatherburn (2002) extreme poverty is linked to high wave of crime in Nigeria, in recent times there has been unprecedented increase in the rate of crime like arm-robbery, kidnapping, theft, murder, suicide, child trafficking and drug trafficking , women were not exempted from these criminal acts . Hence, his study assessed LAPO, rural -women financial security and crime reduction strategies in Nigeria: -a study of selected communities, Badagry, Lagos State.…”