THE STATE, POLICIES AND CATTLE RUSTLING by Ali S. Barilla, Kuden Plang I. Sharpspear & John Isaac, Scientific Research Journal (Scirj), Volume VII, Issue III, March 2019 Edition

Scirj Volume VII, Issue III, March 2019 Edition
ISSN: 2201-2796

THE STATE, POLICIES AND CATTLE RUSTLING

Ali S. Barilla, Kuden Plang I. Sharpspear & John Isaac

Abstract: The paper assesses cattle rustling in relation to social contract, policies and the state. It looks at the causes of cattle rustling and the different policy actions of some states pertaining curtailing the menace. Social contract theory as propounded by Jean Jacque Rousseau was utilized in the explanation of the work. The work expounded that some states are more serious than others in terms of human security most especially in the area of curtailing organised crimes like cattle rustling which in turn earn the state more legitimacy from the citizenry, and it also signifies that those state are operating in line or are making necessary efforts through their policy actions to keep to the terms of the social contract pact made in the state of nature by the state and the citizens. Data used in the paper were sourced using secondary means which form the bases of the method used in the work. Different literature were accessed and assessed and the paper was critiqued, meanwhile the conclusion of the paper posits that the social contract pact should be revisited to serve its original function in the state between the state and the citizens so as to earn legitimacy, policies should be problem solving in their entire inclination when ever they are formulated and implemented in such a way that will guarantee the protection of life and property of the citizenry which will further keep the state existing in line with the terms of the social contract pact hitherto.

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Search Terms: State, Cattle Rustling, Social Contract, Policy

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