This study discusses the trends and patterns of robbery, and reactions to it in contemporary Ghana between 1982 and. It contends that robbery as a crime of opportunity appears to have been prevalent in pre-colonial times as well as during the subsequent period of slavery. Its trends and patterns how
Interpersonal violent crime in Ghana: The case of assault in Accra
โ Scribed by Joseph Appiahene-Gyamfi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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