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Author Saleh-Hanna, Viviane, 1976-

Title Colonial systems of control : criminal justice in Nigeria / by Viviane Saleh-Hanna ; with contributions by Chris Affor [and others].

Imprint Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 504 pages) : maps
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Series Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
Alternative Perspectives in Criminology.
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.
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.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
Subject Imperialism.
Alternatives to imprisonment -- Nigeria.
Prisoners -- Nigeria -- Biography.
Prisoners -- Civil rights -- Nigeria.
Imprisonment -- Nigeria.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Nigeria.
Law -- Non-U.S.
Law -- Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica.
Law, Politics & Government.
Impérialisme.
Emprisonnement -- Alternative -- Nigeria.
Prisonniers -- Nigeria -- Biographies.
Prisonniers -- Droits -- Nigeria.
Emprisonnement -- Nigeria.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social services and welfare, criminology.
Crime and criminology.
Penology and punishment.
Prisons.
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Alternatives to imprisonment
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imperialism
Imprisonment
Prisoners
Prisoners -- Civil rights
Nigeria https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcWvf9xXVHQKFTDpVGCQq
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Author Affor, Chris.
Other Form: Print version: Saleh-Hanna, Viviane, 1976- Colonial systems of control. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008426752
ISBN 9780776617497 (electronic bk.)
0776617494 (electronic bk.)
9780776618234 (electronic bk.)
0776618237 (electronic bk.)
9780776606668 (bound)
0776606662 (bound)
Standard No. AU@ 000048811207
AU@ 000055629071
CHNEW 000978410
CHVBK 50472794X
DEBSZ 396414389
DEBSZ 449664910
GBVCP 1008652288
GBVCP 896273946
NZ1 14254625

 
    
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