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The Future of Sentencing in Nigeria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Alan Milner
Alan Milner*
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Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford
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A paper presented to the International Course in Criminology on the Non-Institutional Treatment of Offenders, Lagos, April 1970.

Nigeria now has an excellent oppartunity to pause and consider the future development of its penal palicies. Reconstruction Js the byword today, and hand in hand with economic and palitical reconstruction must go the devising of new strategies for the control of social affairs. Above all, the search must be for solutions which are peculiarly appropriate to Nigeria in the 1970 s. Many basic assumptions need to be questioned, particularly those which have been inherited uncritically from the colonial era. An untold amount of domestic research needs to be carried on but equally the government must look outward to the rest of the world and tum the successes and failures of other nations to the benefit of Nigeria.

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Premiere Partie: XXth International Course in Criminology
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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Non Institutional Treatment of Offenders , 1971 , pp. 247 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 International Society for Criminology

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Footnotes

Throughout this paper, unless otherwise indicated, references to the Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Act are meant to be to the Code and Act themselves (Logos State) and the virtually indentical legislation in the other Southern States. References to the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code are to the codes in force in the Northern States. The Laws of Western Nigeria, 1959 apply to the Western and Mid-Western States unless otherwise indicated; the Laws of Eastern Nigeria, 1963 to all the Eastern States; the Laws of Northern Nigeria, 1963 to all the Northern States. In case and statutory references, the abbreviations M.-W.N., W.N, E.N. and N.N. apply to, the Mid-Western, Western, Eastern and Northern Regions, and the States subsequently created from those areas.