This book examines and documents the harmful activities of transnational
petroleum extraction corporations in this region of Nigeria, along the lines of
a growing body of literature which conceptualizes preventable market-driven
harms as criminal (see Friedrichs and Friedrichs, 2002 ; I. Ezeonu, 2015 , 2008 ;
Ezeonu and Koku, 2008 ). Expanding on the original thesis described by Friedrichs
and Friedrichs (2002 ) as crimes of globalization, the book contributes
to the development of a criminology of preventable market-generated harms
which I have conceptualized elsewhere as Market Criminology ( I. Ezeonu,
2015 ). The book explores the nature of social harms created by oil and gas production
in the Niger Delta; the roles of corporate, political and security actors
in the generation of these harms; the deleterious effects of market rationality
and architecture on the local population; and community resistance strategies
over the years.