Racism & Colonialism
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From  Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law |
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 … | Biko Agozino | 22 | 2008 | $2.20 Add |
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From Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health Disabilities in African Prisons |
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 … | Uju Agomoh | 23 | 2008 | $2.30 Add |
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From Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria: Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship |
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 … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 61 | 2008 | $6.10 Add |
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From Fela Kuti’s Wahala Music: Political Resistance through Song |
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 … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 22 | 2008 | $2.20 Add |
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From Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in Africa |
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 … | Chukwuma Ume | 15 | 2008 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Igbo Indigenous Justice System |
This chapter examines the indigenous justice system of the Igbo of southeast Nigeria from restorative, transformative, and communitarian principles. | O. Oko Elechi | 22 | 2008 | $2.20 Add |
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From Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies |
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 … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
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From The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X) |
Following a long line of academic literature, and growing through activist affiliations, this chapter outlines penal abolitionism as it was presented to the Nigerian community in efforts to … | Viviane Saleh-Hanna | 32 | 2008 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Canada’s Human Rights Treaties |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the human rights treaties that Canada has signed and how they relate to Indigenous people including the Internation Convention on the Elimination of All … | Arthur Manuel | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From CERDEarly Warning and Urgent Action |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel outlines two cases that the Secwepemc people and the St’at’imc people in the British Columbia Interior brought before the Committee for the … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From Criminalization of Protest |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Indigenous activism in Canada with particular focus on Idle No More and Defenders of the Land and how the Canadian government’s strategy is to use … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
