Essays about: "crime in africa"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 30 essays containing the words crime in africa.

  1. 16. Globalization and Crime: "Feymen" in Cameroon

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskap

    Author : JOYCE OKIA IKOH EPSE ENOW; [2012]
    Keywords : Globalization; Crime; Feymen ;

    Abstract : One of the challenges faced by most countries in Africa today is “high crime wave”, in Cameroon, one of the forms of criminality is known as “feymania” “feymen” practice “feymania” a name commonly known to all Cameroonians, which refers to criminal economic practice. These “feymen” mostly deal with the sales of non-existing goods, money laundry, and the offering of non-existing contracts and documentations. READ MORE

  3. 17. Healing from hate-crime in an unsafe and exposed position : Black lesbian women in South Africa

    University essay from Institutionen för socialvetenskap

    Author : Sara Malmberg; Calle Dahlström; [2012]
    Keywords : Hate-crime; ”corrective rape”; rape; healing; trauma; lesbian; South Africa;

    Abstract : In March 2011 the South African government agreed to address the issue of “corrective rape” due to a petition made by a lesbian activist group. The knowledge of how many women that are raped in South Africa because of their sexual orientation is impossible to achieve since the South African police do not make any distinctions of the motive behind the rape when it is reported. READ MORE

  4. 18. How Does a Minority Become a Pebble in a Country's Shoe?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Eugenie Lonmene Ngnintedem; [2012]
    Keywords : Juvenile Delinquency; Social Exclusion; Strain; Social Disorganization; Conflict; Feymania; Arabs; Middle East; North Africa; Bamileke; Malmö; Douala;

    Abstract : In a statistical report of the year 2005, Brå informs that the Middle East and North African immigrants are overrepresented in crime in Sweden. Also, in a previous study in Cameroon, I realized that the Bamileke folk (originating from the West Cameroon) is mostly represented in the minor district of the Central Prison of Douala - Cameroon. READ MORE

  5. 19. How Does a Minority Become a Pebble in a Country's Shoe?

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Eugenie Lonmene Ngnintedem; [2012]
    Keywords : Juvenile Delinquency; Social Exclusion; Strain; Social Disorganization; Conflict; Feymania; Arabs; Middle East; North Africa; Bamileke; Malmö; Douala;

    Abstract : In a statistical report of the year 2005, Brå informs that the Middle East and North African immigrants are overrepresented in crime in Sweden. Also, in a previous study in Cameroon, I realized that the Bamileke folk (originating from the West Cameroon) is mostly represented in the minor district of the Central Prison of Douala - Cameroon. READ MORE

  6. 20. Nursing students´knowledge of and attitudes towards female genital mutilation : a quantitative study in Ghana

    University essay from Röda Korsets Högskola

    Author : Johanna Avén; Christel-Anne Jacobson; [2011]
    Keywords : female genital mutilation; attitude; knowledge; nursing students; Ghana;

    Abstract : The topic of this study was Female Genital Mutilation, a crime against human rights and a severe problem in parts of Africa. Laws against FGM have had limited effect and nurses are faced with many opportunities to inspire behavioral changes in individuals, making the aim of this study to explore Ghana’s nursing students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards female genital mutilation. READ MORE