Criminology

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Gov’t Clears Prisons Service To Recruit 1,000 Officers

Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance...

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Majority Demands Full Audit of BOST ‘rot’ Under Awuah-Darko

The Majority in Parliament has called for a full-scale forensic audit into the activities of the Bulk Oil Storage and...

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Groups Advocate For Hard Sentence For Offenders

THREE organisations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and...

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US Olympic Doctor Charged Over Sex Abuse of Athletes

A former doctor to gymnasts from successive US Olympic teams is to stand trial on charges that he sexually assaulted...

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Organizations Calls For Effective Measures To Protect Women and Children In Ghana

Three organizations have jointly called for the criminal justice system to provide more protection for women and...

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Three US University Football Players Charged With Sex Assault

Three Michigan State University football players have been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a campus...

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Female Rapists Attacking Men In Zimbabwe, Police Issues Caution

Zimbabwean police have cautioned unsuspecting men and the general public to be wary of a group of women accused of...

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Dead Filipino Seamen Victims of ‘foul Play’

Two Filipino seamen who mysteriously disappeared or died in separate incidents on a Japanese coal ship in Australian...

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Give Us Our Own Ministry

The Ghana Prisons Service is pushing for the creation of a separate ministry to take care of the Service and also...

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Gospel Musician Mary Agyepong Made Ambassador For JRF

Gospel musician, Mary Agyemang, has been named brand ambassador for Juvenile Reform Foundation (JRF)-Ghana, a...

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Kpandai Leads In Sexual and Gender Violence

The Kpandai District in the Northern Region recorded thirty-two assault cases in 2016, topping the list of sexual and...

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Japan Immigration Centre Detainees Go On Hunger Strike

Some 20 foreigners held at an immigration detention centre in Tokyo are on a rare hunger strike in an apparent bid for...

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Gay Doctor Ali Gabass Lectures In Jail

Incarcerated gay man Dr. Ali Gabass appears to have found himself a new job while he serves his time in prison at...

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Court Jails ‘businessman’ 15 Years For Robbery

An Accra Circuit Court on Monday handed a 15-year jail term to a businessman, Kenneth Dzubey, who sexually assaulted...

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Nobody Can Stop Vigilantism

The Minister for Information, Mr Mustapha Hamid has averred that vigilantism is a human problem that no institution can...

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Rape Has Nothing To Do With Girls’ Dressing

Rape has nothing to do with the way girls dress, celebrated Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo has said in direct response...

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Cease Charging Rape Victims – DOVVSU To Doctors

The Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) has spoken openly for the first time against demands made by...

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Stories, Standards and Sex

120 million Africans are on social media. 1.5 million of them are in Ghana. That is power. It connects us, engages us...

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Man Killed During Knife Fight At ‘galamsey’ Site

What started as a control of turf and show of supremacy by two rival gangs in the small scale mining community in...