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Colonial systems of control : criminal justice in Nigeria / by Viviane Saleh-Hanna ; with contributions by Chris Affor ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saleh-Hanna, Viviane, 1976-
- Series:
- Alternative Perspectives in Criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imprisonment--Nigeria.
- Imprisonment.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Nigeria.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Prisoners--Civil rights--Nigeria.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc--Nigeria.
- Women prisoners--Civil rights--Nigeria.
- Women prisoners.
- Women prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc--Nigeria.
- Alternatives to imprisonment--Nigeria.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Nigeria--Colonial influence.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780776617497
- 0776617494
- OCLC:
- 311308245
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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