Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria (Alternative Perspectives in Criminology)

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A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Keep watch over: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the primary 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. Whilst prisoners document the day-to-day 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 all over colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of so much African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria Whilst contextualizing the colonial legacies that experience resulted within the inhumane brutalities which are endured every day.

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