Abstract: Crime precipitates fear, unrest, breach of peace, and general insecurity as it is widely experienced in Nigeria. However, to maintain peaceful coexistence and sustain check and balance, there are laws, rules and regulations that guides human conducts and relationship with one another especially armed conflicts and criminal activities. The law that guides criminal conducts are usually referred to as criminal law, Criminal law was enacted to checkmate criminal behaviors. Arising from this; the paper sought and observed the reasons for the persistently increase in crime in spite of the existence of criminal law in Nigeria.The study adopts the historical method which involves the use of records and secondary data. The information was collected through content analysis of relevant books and documents, web rich files, downloaded papers, statutes, decided cases and journals. The paper measured the adequacy of criminal law and the criminal justice system to determine whether it is adequate enough to prevent crime and maintain peace in the Nigerian society. Findings showed that the Nigeria criminal law and the criminal justice system in Nigeria are not adequate enough to fight a 21st century criminal activities in Nigeria society and various recommendations were made accordingly.
Keywords: Crime, Criminal Law, Peace and Security.
Title: CRIMINAL LAW AND THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY IN NIGERIA
Author: FRANCIS, Olusanmi Kenneth
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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