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Statistical Analysis Of Criminal Offences Recorded In Benin – Edo State (fct) From 1999 – 2007
[A CASE STUDY OF BENIN POLICE DIVISIONAL HEADQUARTERS, EDO STATE]
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PREVENTION OF CRIME
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.
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
Convict
Prison: This prison receives all cases of prisoners i.e. long and short
sentence, condemned criminals and those of gazette etc.
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.
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.
Prison camp: Used to keep prisoner to learn skills such as carpentry, tailoring bricklaying, music etc
1.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The
Nigeria Police Force had its origin in year 1861. The consul at that
time complained that he had numerous duties among those of the police
trust on him and in 1861 permission was sought from the British consular
guard of 30 men. This was so named because the representative of the
British government was John Becroft. Two years later in 1863, this small
guard was renamed “Hausa Police†consisting of 600 men because of the
enlistment into it of some captured runaway slave at Jebba by it. Worer
R. N. in 1879 the Hausa Police was further enlarged by the recruitment
of more men mainly from the Hausa and was named Hausa constabulary. It
then consisted of 1200 officers and commanded by an Inspector-General of
police. Duty was mainly military in character. Although the men were
expected to perform some civil duties one of such military duties was
the provision of detachment of 8 officers and 251 men for the Arochukwu.
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