The trend of females’ admission into the Nigeria correctional services in contemporary Nigeria

• Authors: Christiana Ebobo Urowoli

Abstracts

EN

Females are being involved in crimes and admitted into the correctional services all over the world. However, the trend of these admissions may differ according to the situations on ground. This study therefore aimed at examining the trend of females’ admission into the Nigeria Correctional Services within 2005–2016. The study is longitudinal in nature. It adopted the situational theory of crime as its theoretical framework. Hence it made use of secondary sources of data collection such as the National Bureau of Statistics official report, Nigeria Correctional Services Reports, academic journals and current Newspaper reports. Data analysis was based on content analysis. The study revealed that the highest number of females admitted into the correctional services within the period of study was 13,472. It also revealed that within the period of study, a cumulative total of 82,556 females were admitted for various types of offences into the correctional services across the nation. It identified and arranged in order of frequency 11 types of offences that females were mostly admitted for and identified sedition as the least offence females were admitted for. The study therefore, recommended that poverty, unemployment, inflation, corruption of the ruling classes and governmental aids to bandits should be discouraged if crime must be curbed.

Keywords

EN

Correctional Admission; Crime; Trend; Female; Frequency

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 128-142

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Christiana Ebobo Urowoli

• National Open University of Nigeria Jabi-Abuja

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop2022209

Biblioteka Nauki

2057825