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- Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria
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- 2008
- Published by: University of Ottawa Press
- Series: Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. xvii-xx
- SECTION I: CONTEXTUALIZING NIGERIA
- Chapter 2: Penal Coloniality
- pp. 17-54
- SECTION II: NIGERIAN PRISONS: VOICES FROM INSIDE
- Chapter 5: Another Face of Slavery
- pp. 121-126
- Chapter 6: My Nigerian Prison Experience
- pp. 127-130
- Chapter 7: My Story
- pp. 131-140
- Chapter 8: A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis
- pp. 141-146
- Chapter 9: June 14,2003
- pp. 147-148
- Chapter 10: The System I Have Come to Know
- pp. 149-152
- Chapter 11: Man's Inhumanity to Man
- pp. 153-157
- Chapter 12: Patriotism: Illusion or Reality?
- pp. 157-170
- SECTION III: COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF IMPRISONMENT: GENDER, POVERTY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN PRISON
- Chapter 13: Nigerian Penal Interactions
- pp. 173-222
- Chapter 14: Women's Rights behind Walls
- pp. 223-244
- SECTION IV: RESISTANCE
- pp. 291-293
- SECTION V: STEPPING BEYOND THE COLONIAL PENAL BOX: AFRICAN JUSTICE MODELS AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM
Additional Information
ISBN
9780776617497
Related ISBN(s)
9780776606668
MARC Record
OCLC
311308245
Pages
534
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC