Statistical Analysis Of Certain Prisoners Variables On The Type Of Crime They Committed (A Case Study Of Owerri Prison)

ABSTRACT

The law violators and his victim, providing vicarious involvement as well as otherwise taboo information about the way in which some people live their lives. In countries like South Africa, Britain and Nigeria just to mention but a few stones of brutal violence, clever robbery and ingenious swindle continually beguile. The public imagination, such stories receive a prominent place, in social conversation, conspicuous positions in the newspapers and much attention in the radio and television. Mystery and detective fiction provide a consistently high proportion of the Imo state reading diet. In Imo state it has been noted that there are crimes and exploits, successful and unsuccessful, of criminal given greater attention and publicity. In addition to its extra ordinary appeal to public imagination, crime is also the object of much sober concern, considerable headshaking, and often a large amount of strong distaste, disquiet and horror. Crime threatens, lives and property of all citizens, unlike a disease such as AIDS, which tends to be regarded as an immutable aspect of the roulette of human existence, crime is seen as a phenomenon that somehow might be avoided and controlled in order to allow the potential victims to be free from his uneasiness.