Doing Justice without the State: The Afikpo (Ehugbo) Nigeria ModelRoutledge, 2006. júl. 25. - 280 oldal This study examines the principles and practices of the Afikpo (Eugbo) Nigeria indigenous justice system in contemporary times. Like most African societies, the Afikpo indigenous justice system employs restorative, transformative and communitarian principles in conflict resolution. This book describes the processes of community empowerment, participatory justice system and how regular institutions of society that provide education, social and economic support are also effective in early intervention in disputes and prevention of conflicts. |
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... police and native courts. Serious crimes were tried in the colonial courts; in Nigeria's this was based on British law and not on indigenous Nigerian legal principles. This bipolar legal system developed since the British lacked the ...
... police and native courts. Serious crimes were tried in the colonial courts; in Nigeria's this was based on British law and not on indigenous Nigerian legal principles. This bipolar legal system developed since the British lacked the ...
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... Police is undertaken to illustrate the ineffectiveness of post-colonial state criminal justice systems. Post-colonial theories and the dependency theory are reviewed to get insight into why post-colonial states of Africa have failed to ...
... Police is undertaken to illustrate the ineffectiveness of post-colonial state criminal justice systems. Post-colonial theories and the dependency theory are reviewed to get insight into why post-colonial states of Africa have failed to ...
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... police, courts, prisons and other governmental agencies of social control. No claim is made that the findings of the research can be generalized beyond the Afikpo community. The nature of the Afikpo resolution system is unique. As a ...
... police, courts, prisons and other governmental agencies of social control. No claim is made that the findings of the research can be generalized beyond the Afikpo community. The nature of the Afikpo resolution system is unique. As a ...
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... police, until the community had mediated on the matter. A goal of my research has been to address the question: Why have the African indigenous institutions of social control remained relevant in the affairs of the people despite the ...
... police, until the community had mediated on the matter. A goal of my research has been to address the question: Why have the African indigenous institutions of social control remained relevant in the affairs of the people despite the ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
1 | |
Theoretical Perspectives | 17 |
Chapter Three The CustomLaw Debate in the African Context | 45 |
Chapter Four Nigeria in PostColonial Africa | 75 |
Chapter Five Historical Overview of Afikpo Town | 97 |
Chapter Six Indigenous Institutions of Conflict Resolution in Afikpo | 117 |
Chapter Seven Afikpo Women and the Traditional Justice System | 147 |
Chapter Eight Responding to Breach of CustomRegulations and Other Offenses | 181 |
Appendix | 225 |
Notes | 239 |
Selected Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 259 |
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