Ifeanyi Ezeonu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Commerce, Plunder and the Illegitimate Birth of the Nigerian State, 3. "In the Long Run we are all Dead": Historicizing our Journey to a Market Society, 4. Market Criminology: An Ontological Recalibration of a Discipline, 5. Petroleum Resources and the Plunder of the Niger Delta: Lessons on Market Criminology, 6. Public Security Challenges in the Niger Delta: The Catharsis of Community Resistance, 7. Conclusion: Extending the Periscope of Criminology to Market Rationality, Bibliography

Ifeanyi Ezeonu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Commerce, Plunder and the Illegitimate Birth of the Nigerian State, 3. "In the Long Run we are all Dead": Historicizing our Journey to a Market Society, 4. Market Criminology: An Ontological Recalibration of a Discipline, 5. Petroleum Resources and the Plunder of the Niger Delta: Lessons on Market Criminology, 6. Public Security Challenges in the Niger Delta: The Catharsis of Community Resistance, 7. Conclusion: Extending the Periscope of Criminology to Market Rationality, Bibliography

Ifeanyi Ezeonu is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Commerce, Plunder and the Illegitimate Birth of the Nigerian State, 3. "In the Long Run we are all Dead": Historicizing our Journey to a Market Society, 4. Market Criminology: An Ontological Recalibration of a Discipline, 5. Petroleum Resources and the Plunder of the Niger Delta: Lessons on Market Criminology, 6. Public Security Challenges in the Niger Delta: The Catharsis of Community Resistance, 7. Conclusion: Extending the Periscope of Criminology to Market Rationality, Bibliography