Part –One - -
Introduction- -
Background- -
Statement of the problem. Justification for the study - -
Objectives of the study- -
Scope of the study- -
Methodology- -
Research design - -
National taskforce- -
Literature review - -
PART - TWO- -
REVIEW PROVISIONS OF THE PENAL CODE ACT, CAP. 120 - -
CHAPTER THREE - GENERAL RULES AS TO CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY - -
Presumption of sanity - Sections 10 and 11 - -
Criminal responsibility of judicial officers - -
Defence of person or property and rash, reckless and negligent acts - -
Person not to be punished twice for same offence - -
General punishment for misdemeanors - -
Treason and offences against the State - -
Mandatory death sentence. - -
Arguments for and against mandatory sentencing - -
Penalty for acts intended to alarm, annoy or ridicule the President - -
CHAPTER VI TREASON AND OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE Terrorism
Promoting war on Chiefs - -
Aiding soldiers or police officers to commit crime - -
Offences relating to publications - -
Publication of information prejudicial to security - -
Limitations on compulsion as a defence to unlawful oath or engagement - -
Publication of false news - -
CHAPTER VII-OFFENCES AFFECTING RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN STATES AND EXTERNAL TRANQUILLITY- -
Defamation of foreign princes - -
Foreign enlistment - -
Piracy - -
Unlawful Society (Combine provisions relating to unlawful society 56 and 57,) - -
Miscellaneous provisions relating to unlawful societies - -
Dispersal of riots- -
Going armed in certain places. - -
The meaning of lawful occasion- -
Challenge to fight a duel - -
Threatening violence - -
Watching and Besetting- -
Incitement to violence. - -
Assembling for the purpose of smuggling - -
Definitions for purposes of the ChapterXIV on offences against morality - -
Definition of rape - -
Punishment for rape - -
Attempt to commit rape - -
Abduction - -
Elopement - -
Indecent assaults. - -
Aggravated defilement - -
Defilement of person under the age of eighteen - -
Defilement of idiots and imbeciles
Procuration - -
Corroboration for offences of procuration - -
Prostitution and related offences - -
Attempts to procure abortion and procuring miscarriage - -
Unnatural offences - -
Indecent assault on children under eighteen - -
Indecent practices - -
Incest - -
Fraudulent pretence of marriage - -
Bigamy - -
Adultery - -
Desertion of children and neglecting to provide for children - -
Master not providing for servants or apprentices - -
Child stealing - -
Gaming houses - -
Gaming machines - -
Chain letters - -
Traffic in obscene publications - -
Idle and disorderly - -
Rogues and vagabonds - -
Negligent act likely to spread infection of disease - -
Adulteration of food or drink - -
Provisions on defamation - -
Limitation as to time of death - -
Duty of head of family - -
Duty of masters - -
Written threats to murder - -
Attempting suicide - -
Infanticide- -
Intentionally endangering safety of persons traveling by railway - -
Doing grievous harm - -
Attempting to injure by explosive substances - -
Maliciously administering poison with intent to harm - -
Wounding and similar acts - -
Failure to supply necessaries Surgical operation - -
Excess of force - -
Rash and negligent act causing death - -
Specific rash and negligent acts and other rash and negligent acts - -
Dealing in poisonous substances in negligent manner - -
Danger and obstruction of public way - -
Offences against liberty. - -
Theft - -
Cattle rustling - -
Corruption, abuse of office and related offences - -
Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged property - -
Definition of robbery, aggravated robbery and attempted robbery Attempts at extortion by threats - -
Penalty in case of breaking, etc. by armed persons - -
Persons found, etc. with intent to commit felony- -
Persons found loitering, etc. with intent - -
Forfeiture - -
Obtaining goods by false pretences - -
Obtaining execution of a security by false pretences - -
Frauds on sale or mortgage of property - -
Pretending to tell fortunes - -
Obtaining registration, etc by false pretence - -
False declaration for passport - -
Smuggling - -
Fraudulent disposal of trust property - -
False accounting by public officer - -
Setting fire, etc. to crops and growing plants - -
Injuring animals - -
Punishment for malicious injuries in general - -
Removing boundary marks - -
Wilful damage, etc. to survey and boundary marks - -
Penalties for damage, etc. to railway works - -
Document - -
General punishment for forgery - -
Forgery of wills, etc - -
Forgery of judicial or official document - -
Obliterating crossings on cheques - -
False statements for registers of births, deaths and marriages - -
Offences relating to coin, bank and currency notes - -
CHAPTER XXXVII - COUNTERFEITING TRADEMARKS - -
CHAPTER XXXIX-CHEQUES- -
Issue of false cheques - -.
CHAPTER XL-ATTEMPTS - -
Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor - -
Other conspiracies - -
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