TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saleh-Hanna, Viviane
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_627412
ID  - OAPEN ID: 627412
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 311308245
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Criminology
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Sociology
KW  - History
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Penal Models
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Criminal Justice
KW  - Abolitionism
KW  - Africa
KW  - Demographics of Africa
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/9156e156-c91e-4eb1-9e79-998937e2abed/627412.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31525
PB  - University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa
PP  - Ottawa
PY  - 2008
SN  - 9780776617497
TI  - Colonial Systems of Control : Criminal Justice in Nigeria
ER  - 
