UID:
almahu_9949747540502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781003453505
,
1003453503
,
9781040011027
,
1040011020
,
9781040011065
,
1040011063
Content:
"Focusing on the role of community courts in Mozambique, this book offers a postcolonial perspective on legal pluralism. In Mozambique, judicial courts are distant and expensive and legal terminology is incomprehensible to the majority of people. As such, Mozambicans continue to rely on different normative systems to resolve their disputes - systems that have always been considered as closer, cheaper and faster than judicial courts. This book analyses the functioning of community courts in the Mozambican capital city of Maputo. As it considers how the past shapes the relationship of the state with community courts, the book uncovers the Eurocentrism of mainstream discourses and practices of criminal justice. In response, it develops a postcolonial account of legal pluralism. Arguing that community courts may therefore be seen as the form of an otherwise neglected local knowledge, the book maintains their overlooked importance in improving widespread access to criminal justice. This book will be of value to scholars working in the areas of legal pluralism and postcolonialism, as well as others with interests in criminal justice"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lorizzo, Tina, 1981- Community courts and postcolonial legal pluralism Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032592039
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781003453505
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003453505
