Refocusing the Focus, Metafocus and Profocus: Mopping Urban Violence in Developing Cities
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2016
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Journal of Social Sciences
Abstract
In most developing countries, urbanization is often relegated to the major population
centres, leaving secondary cities and rural communities neglected. Such acts of neglect
have caused occurrence of certain forms of violence in large cities. In order to reduce
and mop up the resultant menace of urban violence, policy makers should initiate refocusing processes from larger cities to secondary cities. This will reveal an enormous
potential growth and developments within the secondary cities and the country. This
paper uses the principles of metafocus and profocus to proffer how the refocusing on
secondary cities can be actualised and benefit the development of the state. The relative
deprivation theory is utilized to analyse how the deprivation and neglect leads
to urban violence. The adopted methodology analyses the economic conditions and
the achieved satisfactory level of urban violence management that ensues from the
demographic delimitations in the selected three African countries of Kenya, Nigeria and
South Africa. Conclusions are based on the premise that the economic conditions will
improve and become balanced if the Pleuri-Potent Mega-City Stem Cell (PPMC-SC) of
the metafocus principles and the defensive internal curative packages (M-DICP) of the
profocus principles are applied in the countries’ secondary and larger cities.
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Development, poverty, public policy, secondary, towns, urbanization, urban violence