I thoroughly enjoyed reading this trail-blazing text on the link between two fundamental influences on socio-economic development of many a country—urbanisation and crime—influences that are particularly important in a developing country such as Nigeria. As a Nigerian national myself, I have noted the frenetic pace of urbanisation in the country and pondered the consequences of graduates and youths in different parts of the country abandoning the rural and semi-rural towns for the cities, and thus creating a squeeze of very large populations into such cities as Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Port Harcourt. Such a squeeze seems to me a plausible cause of crimes in those cities, given the lack of adequate economic opportunities to occupy the minds of city dwellers. It is, therefore, apposite to have to write a foreword to a text that, arguably for the first time, provides in fairly forensic details a multi-lensed understanding of urbanisation and crime in Nigeria.