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Women’s Rights behind Walls

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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This chapter offers a comparative approach to issues faced by criminalized and imprisoned women in several African countries. It also highlights the voices of resistance, especially women … 22 $2.20 Add
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Drugs Representations of Women in the Drug Trade

From: Gender, Law & Justice

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Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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The Daniel case problematizes the common-sense equation between crime and punishment, and demonstrates that what is considered “criminal” is situational and culturally specific. In … 22 $2.20 Add
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Rattling Assumptions and Building Bridges Community-Engaged Education and Action in a Women’s Prison

From: Criminalizing Women

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The Extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada

From: (Ab)Using Power

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Experiencing the Inside-Out Program in a Maximum-Security Prison

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Prison Regulating Women

From: Gender, Law & Justice

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Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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It has been argued that the mentally ill are victims of two failed public policies: the failure of public officials to ensure an effective mental health system, and an overly ambitious criminal … 23 $2.30 Add
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Enhancing the Well-Being of Criminalized Indigenous Women – A Contemporary Take on a Traditional Cultural Knowledge Form

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Reforming Prisons for Women?

From: Gender, Law & Justice

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Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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This chapter focuses on women in the contemporary northern Nigerian context: their interactions with pluralities of law in northern Nigeria, and the modes of resistance they employ in facing … 61 $6.10 Add
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Experiencing the Inside-Out Program in a Maximum-Security Prison

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Fela Kuti’s Wahala Music: Political Resistance through Song

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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Music was used as a culturally appropriate tool of political resistance by Fela Kuti in Nigeria during an era of military regimes. Within the historical and spiritual contexts of Fela’s … 22 $2.20 Add
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Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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The concept and implementation of community service orders are presented as a practical alternative to imprisonment. The chapter also puts forward the rationale for the call for more viable and … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Igbo Indigenous Justice System

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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This chapter examines the indigenous justice system of the Igbo of southeast Nigeria from restorative, transformative, and communitarian principles. 22 $2.20 Add
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Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies

From: Colonial Systems of Control

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Two questions about the penal abolitionist perspective are whether it represents is a theory of crime and whether it can or does address the nature of crime. Here I will illustrate that penal … 40 $4.00 Add