IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/104418.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The inefficiency of the death penalty for rape in Nigeria

Author

Listed:
  • Aladetoyinbo, Muyiwa

Abstract

In Nigeria, the most severe punishment for rape is life imprisonment. Recently there has been pressure on the legislature to approve the death penalty as punishment to curb the menace of rape. The paper evaluates negative implications that the death penalty will have on the crime of rape in Nigeria.

Suggested Citation

  • Aladetoyinbo, Muyiwa, 2020. "The inefficiency of the death penalty for rape in Nigeria," MPRA Paper 104418, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:104418
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104418/2/MPRA_paper_104418.pdf
    File Function: original version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Rape; death penalty; punishment; Nigeria; Severity of punishment; certainty of punishment.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • K14 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Criminal Law
    • K3 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law
    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:104418. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joachim Winter (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.