Assessment of Socio-Economic Status of Criminal Offenders in Medium Security Custodial Center Kurmawa, Kano State, Nigeria

Ibrahim Mukhtar Mohammed; Prof JI Yecho

doi:10.56201/jhsp.vol.11.no5.2025.pg127.135

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Assessment of Socio-Economic Status of Criminal Offenders in Medium Security Custodial Center Kurmawa, Kano State, Nigeria

Ibrahim Mukhtar Mohammed, Prof JI Yecho

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Crime and its perpetrators are elements of society that seem to be inevitable and constant. Most criminal offenders violate laws of the society intentionally or otherwise. These violations are triggered due to pressures in achieving the desired expectations and aspirations. These triggers are not far from the socio-economic statuses of the actors that needs to be satisfied for human existence. The problem lies within differentiated opportunities attributed to socio-economic lifestyles of individual as provided by the society where they live. In order to understand these claims, the researcher searched to understand the socio-economic statuses of individual has, in fueling the crime perpetuated. In achieving the aforementioned, the study focused on finding out social and economic statuses of criminal offenders. The Social structure/ anomie (strain) and social disorganization theories was used as the theoretical framework. Survey design was used and mixed methods and analysis was fashioned to collect data with a sampled size of (311). Also, there are (5) major social statuses of offenders (gender, marital status, level of formal education, family type and social exclusion), (3) major economic statuses of criminal offenders (employment status, poverty level and income). However, results investigated portrayed that, socio-economic statuses of offenders such as income, family types, gender, employment, poverty level and marital statuses have stronger impetus in moderating (to increase or decrease) crimes and criminal offenders’ actions within the society. Although, level of formal education and social exclusion are found to be less effective in fueling criminality. Creating employment, social support programs, mass public education and population control are advised to be employed as recommendations.

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CrimeCriminal OffendersSocial StatusEconomic StatusSociological Assessment

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Assessment of Socio-Economic Status of Criminal Offenders in Medium Security Custodial Center Kurmawa, Kano State, Nigeria

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