UID:
almahu_9949711365802882
Format:
1 online resource (535 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-7766-1749-4
Series Statement:
Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
Content:
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 Euro
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7766-0666-2
Language:
English
