Colonial Systems of Control

Criminal Justice in Nigeria

Nonfiction, History, Africa, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Criminology
Cover of the book Colonial Systems of Control by Chris Affor, Uju Agomoh, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Osa Eribo, Mechthild Nagel, Igho Odibo, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Unyierie Idem, University of Ottawa Press
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Author: Chris Affor, Uju Agomoh, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Osa Eribo, Mechthild Nagel, Igho Odibo, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Unyierie Idem ISBN: 9780776618234
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press Publication: April 18, 2008
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press Language: English
Author: Chris Affor, Uju Agomoh, Biko Agozino, Clever Akporherhe, Sylvester Monday Anagaba, O. Oko Elechi, Osa Eribo, Mechthild Nagel, Igho Odibo, Julia Sudbury, Chukwuma Ume, Unyierie Idem
ISBN: 9780776618234
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Publication: April 18, 2008
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Language: English

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 European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis.

Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison

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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 European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis.

Keywords: Nigeria, West Africa, penal system, maximum-security prison

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