Available statistics lend weight to the contention that forgery has reached an alarming stage in Nigeria. Notably, one of the areas that forgery has become dreaded is in the area of age falsification. Little or no attempt has been made to provide strongest causal account of what predispose people to forgery (age falsification). This is the backdrop against which the study was designed. Four objectives and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Accidental sampling technique was used to elicit response from 180 respondents. A questionnaire complemented with structured oral interview schedule was the instruments for data collection. . Data obtained from the study were analyzed using the inferential statistics. It was found that there is a strong correlation between structural realities and age falsification. From the findings the paper proffered that, there is urgent need for the re-assessment of structural realities that push people to crime and deviant behaviour.
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To Cite this Article: Ezikeudu, C. C. (2019). Public Perception of the Structural versus Individual Causes of Forgery in Nigeria: A Study of Age Falsification in Cross River State. International Journal Academic Research Business and Social Sciences, 9(4), 147–161.
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