Abstract
The social vices rape “has been around” for a very long time, it is as old as humankind. It has been experiencing in almost all the countries of the world. However, in a country like Nigeria, the issue of rape among the people had been on the rising rate these days as many babies, aged and teenagers had been raped to death. It is in view of the above challenges that this paper examined the causes, impact and solutions to the rising cases of rape in Nigeria. The paper adopted the relative deprivation theory to validate its arguments, while data are gathered through the secondary methods as data are retrieved from books, articles, newspapers and internet materials. This paper argued that the major causes of the rising cases of rape in Nigeria are youth’s unemployment that is realized as a result of bad governance, and submit that good governance is the only lasting and perpetual solution to the rising cases of rape in Nigeria.
Highlights
The phenomenon rape has been existing among human for a very long time
This paper argued that the major causes of the rising cases of rape in Nigeria are youth’s unemployment that is realized as a result of bad governance, and submit that good governance is the only lasting and perpetual solution to the rising cases of rape in Nigeria
Based on the fact that its motive differs from that of the primitive rape that is done only for fun, and to kill the perpetuators’ sexual urge. This is different from the modern-day rape that is done for economic purposes e.g. money ritualism
Summary
The phenomenon rape has been existing among human for a very long time. It is as old as human kind. It is the failure of Nigerian government to guarantee the above, as in the basic needs of lives that has led to the broke out of series of social vices such as armed and unarmed crime, including ritualism which most of the youths today sees as the only way out of poverty ravaging them.
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