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Statistical Analysis Of Criminal Offences Recorded In Kuje – Abuja (fct) From 1999 – 2007
[A CASE STUDY OF KUJE POLICE DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA]
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PREVENTION OF CRIME
1. Retribution: This means severe punishment
for any wrong conduct. No doubt this objectives governs the minds of the
Nigeria courts and indeed the public. When one is being sentenced to
prison, section 4(1) of prison Decree 1972 (decree 9) stated that
“subject to this section, the effect of sentence of imprisonment is with
hard labour passed upon a prison shall be that the prisoner shall be
imprisoned for the period of the sentence and during his imprisonment
shall work at such labour as may be directed by the superintendantâ€.
This law therefore emphasized the puncture aspect.
2. Deterrence:
This can also be seen as consequence or punishment set aside by the
government in order to serve as a lesson to determine both the prisoner
and the public at large.
PRISON
According to the Oxford Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary, a prison is “a building where people are kept as a
punishment for a crime they have committed.
TYPES OF PRISON
1.
Convict Prison: This prison receives all cases of prisoners i.e. long
and short sentence, condemned criminals and those of gazette etc.
2.
Divisional or provincial prison: It receives the cases of anybody
sentenced under 12 years. The long term prisoners that may be found in
this prison are those of special arrangement. E.g. building, carpentry,
bricklayers after which they must be returned to the convict prison.
3.
Central prison: Central prison is a prison that governs all other
prison activities in a given division and it is headed by the controller
general of prison.
4. Prison camp: Used to keep prisoner to learn skills such as carpentry, tailoring bricklaying, music etc
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