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Statistical Analysis Of Criminal Offences Recorded
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CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The increasing desire of the
government and civilization to improve the maintenance of law and order
and to engage in crime prevention, has led to the search for data on all
aspect of crime. This will enable the government to know whether crime
is increasing or decreasing.
Crime in a normal sense is an act or
offence which is punishable by law. Crime is a term used to describe any
act that breaks a society. Some examples of crimes are robbery,
kidnapping, raping, theft etc.
Therefore, anyone that violet the law
should be arrested, tried and immediately sentenced to some time in
prison if and only if found guilty. The prison is where criminals are
supposed to be reformed and learn to obey the rules and regulation set
down or order to govern the society properly.
Despite the efforts of
security agencies to curb crime in our society, the rate of crime is
increasing at alarming rate. This indeed has been the common practice in
the society especially within the youths. Many measures had been taken
to eradicate this abnormal behavior from our society, nevertheless, the
condition still remain the same as this criminal cases occur day in day
out in the society.
Prison is a place where people who are convicted
by the law court are being kept to await trial. It is a house built by
the government in order to detain anybody who goes against the law.
CLASSIFICATION OF CRIME
Crime can be classified in many ways, but some of them are:
1.
Crime against people: This include rape, kidnapping, murder (homicide),
robbery etc, such crimes usually carries severe punishment.
2.
Crime against property: Automobile, fraud, forgery, vandalism and
robbery. In most cases these crimes may carry higher penalties than
crime against people.
3. Crime against public and morality order: This include disorderly conduct, gambling, prostitution, public drunkenness etc
These offences generally involve bigger penalties.
CAUSES OF CRIME
Crimes
are caused by many factors. Criminologist in their studies enumerated
the causes of crime as psychological, sociological and heredity etc.
While to the prison officers, crime is regarded as a human reaction to
his environment, for example, some crimes are caused by the following
factor:
1. Economy: This is a good cause of crime in our country,
Nigeria. Without employment many had roam the town and in consequence
the devil offers them employment in crimes especially property crimes.
2.
After-War-Effect: After the civil war, many youths who have been
trained in the use of arms were left unemployed as a result of that
crime and violence increase. The drift from the rural to urban areas and
the corresponding unemployment brought about frustration and with the
resultant poverty, destitution and lack of the barest necessity of life,
the youths resort to crime and this appears to be gainful.
3.
Political Activities: Due to the political immaturity of the masses in
the Nigeria scene, political campaigns and elections are regrettably
atrocious. Crimes such as murder, looting, corruption and rioting
amongst others were among the factors the encouraged criminal activities
in our society.
In most cases, the law enforcement agencies are
incapable of action especially when the rich or influential politicians
are concerned or when the political party in power is concerned
associated with this also are embezzlement of public funds through
contracts, nepotism and corruption in distribution of public offices and
privileges. These are notorious acts.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Statistics is playing an important role in virtually all aspect of human life. This role is used to analyze a project, which is aimed at analyzing the rate of crime in Kuje-Abuja. This analysis is meant for correction, up-dating, forecasting the future accordance events. The objectives of the project are the criminal offences in Kuje. The project comprises of five chapters; chapter one, contains the introduction of the project and the historical background of Kuje Police Station also the aims an ... Continue reading---
