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Title
Towards a Precautionary Approach to the Reform of the Law of Rape in Nigeria |
Full text
http://dspace.unijos.edu.ng/handle/10485/344 |
Date
2008 |
Author(s)
Asada, Dominic |
Abstract
THE ADVOCATE A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ISSUES - For quite some time now the criminal justice system has been vehemently vilified and assailed for not protecting the female rape victims. The quarrel has been with the courts and the police unflinching lenient predisposition to rapists; the lopsidedness in the law which permits the rapist to escape the dragnet of the laws coupled with the paltry or inadequate sentences often handed out to convicts. The nature of the act of rape and the accompanying trauma, no doubt calls for a painstaking examination of the criminal justice system, especially its institutional and legal regime. Evidence from some commonwealth jurisdictions such as England, Scotland, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, shows a similar characteristic pattern of the legal system attitude in the treatment of rape victims.1 Despite the current uproar against the so-called oppressive tactics adopted by the police and the courts in gauging the authenticity of rape complaints, our perspectives should not be blurred by the intrinsic advantages or qualities imbedded in the present substantive and procedural law. |
Subject(s)
Law; Political Science |
Language
en |
Publisher
The Editorial Board, Law Students' Society, University of Jos, Nigeria. |
Relation
Volume 12;No. 12 2008 |
Type of publication
Article |
Identifier
978-327820 |
Repository
Jos - University of Jos
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