| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 504 pages) : maps. |
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Alternative Perspectives in Criminology |
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Alternative Perspectives in Criminology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1: Introduction: Colonial Systems of Control; SECTION I: CONTEXTUALIZING NIGERIA; SECTION II: NIGERIAN PRISONS: VOICES FROM INSIDE; SECTION III: COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF IMPRISONMENT: GENDER, POVERTY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN PRISON; SECTION IV: RESISTANCE; SECTION V: STEPPING BEYOND THE COLONIAL PENAL BOX: AFRICAN JUSTICE MODELS AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM. |
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Ch. 1: Introduction: colonial systems of control -- ch. 2: Penal coloniality -- ch. 3: An evolution of the penal system: criminal justice in Nigeria -- ch. 4: The militarization of Nigerian society -- ch. 5: Another fact of slavery -- ch. 6: My Nigerian prison experience -- ch. 7: My story -- ch. 8: A tribute to solidarity: my oasis -- ch. 9: June 14, 2003 -- ch. 10: the system I have come to know -- ch. 11: Man's inhumanity to man -- ch. 12: Patriotism: illusion or reality -- ch. 13: Nigerian penal interactions -- ch. 14: women's rights behind walls -- ch. 15: Nigerian women in prison: hostages in law -- ch. 16: Protecting the human rights of people with mental health disabilities in African prisons -- ch. 17: Women, law, and resistance in northern Nigeria: understanding the inadequacies of Western scholarship -- ch. 18: Fela Kuti's wahala music: political resistance through song -- ch. 19: Alternatives to imprisonment: community service orders in Africa -- ch. 20: The Igbo indigenous justice system -- ch. 21: Penal abolitionist theories and ideologies -- ch. 22: The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X). |
| Summary |
A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis. |
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Imperialism.
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Alternatives to imprisonment -- Nigeria.
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Prisoners -- Nigeria -- Biography.
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Prisoners -- Civil rights -- Nigeria.
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Imprisonment -- Nigeria.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Nigeria.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Social services and welfare, criminology.
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Crime and criminology.
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Penology and punishment.
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Prisons.
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Alternatives to imprisonment. (OCoLC)fst00806191
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Criminal justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00883246
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Imperialism. (OCoLC)fst00968126
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Imprisonment. (OCoLC)fst00968277
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Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
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Prisoners -- Civil rights.
(OCoLC)fst01077110
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Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Affor, Chris.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saleh-Hanna, Viviane, 1976- Colonial systems of control. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008426752 |
| ISBN |
9780776617497 (electronic bk.) |
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0776617494 (electronic bk.) |
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9780776606668 (bound) |
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0776606662 (bound) |
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