On gender criminality
By GENDER is the fiscal, social and cultural features or qualities related with being either a male or female. Basically in most societies, men and women are totally different from each other and this is seen in their activities and business, and also their access to and control over resources, and partaking in decision-making. Gender is a power tool, a social institution and cultural construct.
The idea of gender is not constrained to the male or female species, but further breaks the bound to fully assess the correlations between them. Crime is an explicitly an interesting event and a huge problem in any society because it is in all corollary the opposite of good deed. The impact of gender criminality in Nigeria has to do with the inequalities in the society and how it encourages criminality in Nigeria even in prison yards.
Gender inequality does not actually mean that all women are worse than all men, neither is the reverse. But to some degree, gender is a vital social separation described by the word inequality. Gender to a large extent influences people’s perspectives and their social expectations. Gender equality on the other hand has to do with women and men enjoying the same status and having equal human rights and also the opportunities for acknowledging their full right and humans and the ability to partake, contribute to national, political, economic, social, and cultural development, and also to benefit from the end results.
Gender equality reduces crime and fosters unity, growth and development in the society. Women most times fall victims of frowning circumstances because they want retain the position enforced on them as the house keeper, baby making machines and keep their homes, provide for their children, and as such bear a disproportionate burden, trying to manage household consumption and production under conditions of recession.
The circumstance in which women commit criminal offense is different from men; a considerable number of women offenders are in prison as a direct or indirect outcome of the bigotry and deficit, which is most times often experienced from their spouses, their family members and the community.
Crimes committed by women are related to poverty and most times as a result of trying to survive in order to support their family and children.
Gender roles has resulted to a scar on women in prison, and while their husbands, partners often support their husbands in prison and upon release as a matter of course, reciprocally women tend to be silenced by their spouse and often even the whole family if they are by any chance detained. Criminality in Nigeria has been an age long problem that has significantly affected the development of the country both economically, politically and otherwise. The issue of criminality has taken a surprisingly upward surge in Nigeria owing to the increase in the wave of crime and other illicit practices.
- Okanlawon Uthman
Okanlawonuthman@yahoo.com
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