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Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony, Hardcover by Okafo, nonso, Br...
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- Reconstructing Law and Justice in a Postcolony, Hardcover by Okafo, nonso, ISBN 0754647846, ISBN-13 9780754647843, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Seeking to fashion a system and process for more effective and efficient social control, Okafo (Norfolk State U., US) establishes a prototype for combining indigenous and foreign elements to restructure procedural and substantive components of the justice system in countries recently free from colonialism or occupation. Nigeria is his primary case study, but he compares the process in 12 countries altogether. He begins by asking whether traditions, customs, and native law are impotent in the face of modernity. His comparative survey of three groups of four countries each, leads him to conclude that the variety of colonizers and occupiers has left a corresponding variety of type of foreign control systems, and that in many cases the natives systems are officially relegated to inferior roles. Turning then to post-British Nigeria, he considers obstacles to indigenizing law and justice, and models for legislation and enforcement and adjudication and corrections. His summary suggests increasing the role of civil response. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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