| dc.description.abstract | Urbanisation is a global trend reflecting the growing population of the world (McCarney, 2019).
The urban populations of less-developed countries are currently increasing at a faster rate than
those of more-developed countries (Mabogunje, 2019; Mabogunje, 2017). In the last three
decades, urbanization is becoming prominent throughout time and is on a steady increase, where
by 2030, the urban population will have increased from 3.5 billion to 5 billion, which will be more
than 50% of the world's population (Mabogunje, 2018). Urbanisation is the process of growth in
urban areas. Industrialization, specialization, and economic development are related to theories of
urbanisation (Onokerhoraye, 2016; Stren & White, 2019). A basic feature of urbanisation is the
shifting in employment from the rural to the urban or industrial sector. In other words, urbanisation
is an indicator of industrial development in the economy (Trevallion, 2017). Labor market pooling,
trade of goods and services, knowledge spill over, high level of income and economic relations
are the basic pillars of urbanisation (Onibokun, Oyediran, Egunjobi, & Agbola, 2019).
In the African context several scholars like Bascom (2016), Ema (2016), Faniran (2017) and
Koenigsberger (2015) defined crime as an activity which is against the law and the fact that the
linkage between criminal activities and the socio-economic development of the society is
undeniable due to the complex nature of the subject of crime, for example, regarding its causes
and consequences, various academic disciplines such as criminology, sociology, geography,
psychology and demography study it from their own perspective. In other developing countries
such as Ethiopia, urbanization has resulted in developing various project-like communities where
unemployment, poverty, immigration, violence and crime rates are much higher than those in the
more rural areas of the country | en_US |
