“Crimes of the Crime Fighters”: Nigerian Police Officers’ Sexual and Physical Abuses Against Female Arrestees

This article investigates incidences of the breach of human rights, constitutional provisions, criminal code, and police regulatory acts by Nigerian police officers in the course of arresting, detaining, and interrogating female suspects. A mixed-method approach was deployed to collect and analyze q...

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Authors: Aborisade, Richard (Author) ; Oni, Similade Fortune (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Women & criminal justice
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 243-263
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Abuse
Female gender
POLICE brutality
Victims
Violence