Johnson Oluwole Ayodele

Johnson Oluwole Ayodele is a lecturer and faculty member, Department of Sociology, Lagos State University. A specialist in Criminology, Victimology, Social Problems, Social Works, Sociology of Education and Sociology of Mass Communication, with a particular interest in victims’ crime reporting to the police. He has done extensive work in Lagos, some in Ogun, Oyo and Osun states of Nigeria. His work has focused on social responses to victimization, police attitudes to victims, agba, ajobi, and ajogbe as structures of vigilantism among the egba people, women as victims of widowhood practices, subsidy withdrawal injustice, and marital rape. Ayodele has some of his works published in both local and reputable and scholarly international journals.

Publications

One Space for Two Justice Praxes in Nigeria: The Yoruba Experience in Stakeholders' Restoration
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele, Jane Roli Adebusuyi. © 2023. 32 pages.
The Yoruba people have unwritten normative, proverb-driven traditional jurisprudence to resolve all emerging disputes. Regrettably, colonialism suddenly emerged to compel the...
Drug Promotion and Self-Medication Practices in Lagos, Nigeria
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2021. 15 pages.
The study examines the effects of drug promotional practices and self-medication behaviour on public health in Lagos. It used a multistage sampling method to select 315...
Global Perspectives on Victimization Analysis and Prevention
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2020. 272 pages.
Over the past two decades, both developed and developing countries have experienced major individual and collective tragic victimizations leading to major structural and systemic...
Climate Change: An Appraisal of Vulnerability, Victimization, and Adaptation
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2020. 23 pages.
In combination with ignorance, incompetence, and poor governance, climate change has become a serious threat to the greatness of Africa. Beyond that, climate change poses a...
Colonialism and Victimization Narratives in the Context of Africa's Development
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2020. 21 pages.
The chapter appraises the implications of victimization inherent in colonialism for the development of Africa. It analyses pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial...
Restorative Justice and Women's Experiences of Violence in Nigeria
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2019. 19 pages.
The principles of restorative justice (RJ) and traditional African mediatory practices share a similar vision about giving social healing to offenders, victims, and communities...
The Influence of Migration and Crime on Development in Lagos, Nigeria
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2019. 29 pages.
Considering the implications of population movements for places of origin and destinations, migration has garnered significant interest in recent scholarship. To advance this...
The Influence of Migration and Crime on Development in Lagos, Nigeria
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2017. 39 pages.
Considering the implications of population movements for places of origin and destinations, migration has garnered significant interest in recent scholarship. To advance this...
Restorative Justice and Women's Experiences of Violence in Nigeria
Johnson Oluwole Ayodele. © 2017. 19 pages.
The principles of restorative justice (RJ) and traditional African mediatory practices share a similar vision about giving social healing to offenders, victims, and communities...