UID:
edocfu_9959797261202883
Format:
1 online resource (188 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-78238-649-1
Content:
Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary law and state law -undermine one another in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, partly explains the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of coordination in the punishing of wrong behavior is both problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are subject to such legal phenomena Legal dissonance can lead to behavior being simultaneously promoted by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice, and, perhaps more impo
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Legal Dissonance; Legal Dissonance - The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea - Shaun Larcom; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Customary Law and the State Criminal Law; Chapter 2 Historical Overview of the State, Criminal Law and Customary Law; Chapter 3 Empirical Study of the Sanction of Wrongs in the New Guinea Islands; Chapter 4 Legal Dissonance in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 5 Past Reforms that Failed; Conclusion; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78533-762-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78238-648-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782386490
