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A Comparison On The Impact Of Gender Criminality In Nigeria
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more harm than good to the citizens, inmates specifically. Among women,
poverty is common. Previous research works revealed that women account
for over 70% of the world’s absolute poor. Women most times fall victims
of frowning circumstances because they want retain the position
enforced on them as the house keeper, baby making machines etc and keep
their homes, provide for their children, and as such bear a
disproportionate burden, trying to manage household consumption and
production under conditions of recession.
Amongst various areas in
which the parliamentarians play important roles in encouraging,
supporting and protecting women’s rights, the discrimination against
women and girls in the criminal justice system makes up a huge problem
which is less seen addressed than others. These concerns range from
discriminatory, gender inclined offences and reasons for detention to
the impact of the lack of financial resources in order to prevent
detention and a prison system that has been designed by men for male
prisoners. The excessive increase in discrimination positions girls in
situations where they are open to attacks.Nowadays, the circumstances in
which women commit criminal offences are different from men. For this
reason, a considerable number of women offenders are in prison as a
direct or indirect outcome of the discrimination and deprivation, which
is most times often experienced from theirspouses, their family members
and the community. Crimes committed by women are related to poverty and
most timesas a result of trying to survivein other to support their
family and children. When it comes to the profile and background of
women in prison, and the reasons for their imprisonment, it
differscompletely from those of men. Just like the men, women prisoners
basically come from economically and socially underprivilegedparts of
society, together with drug peddlers/users, lower-level property
offenders, and sex workers are overrepresented. To compare the male
prison populations, women mainly commit minor crimes, theft and fraud
and these are chiefly caused by emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse
which contributes to women’s criminal behaviour. Women (and girls) make
up the minority of prisoners all over the world, amounting to an
estimated 2 to 9% of national prison populations. Howbeit, the number of
imprisoned women has drastically increased in some countries, and to a
large extent higher than for men. For this reason, the specific needs
and characteristics of women and girls which are the main reason of the
criminal justice system have remained unacknowledged and unaddressed.
Prison systems are on every occasion crafted for the majority male
prison population which is not meant to be and is as a result of
discrimination; from the framework of prisons, to security procedures,
to facilities for healthcare, family contact, work and training.
Consequently, a few numbers of prisons meet the specific needs of women
prisoners, and most times do not get them ready for release with
genderappropriate rehabilitation. The United Nations Rules for the
Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women
Offenders were embraced in December 2010 to in other to put things in
place especially the lack of standards, however the international
community till date are deficient of awareness and commitment to
implementation. Gender roles has resulted to a scar on women in prison,
and while their husbands, partnersoften support their husbands in prison
and upon release as a matter of course, reciprocally women tend to be
silenced by their spouse and often even the whole family if they are by
any chance detained. At the same time, women are most times the sole
caretaker of young children, which has resulted in a particular impact
of even short periods of detention on children and the wider family.
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