Colonial Systems of Control

Criminal Justice in Nigeria
Herausgeber: Saleh-Hanna, Viviane

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of prisons in West Africa. Personal accounts by prisoners of Kirikiri maximum security prison present the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while chapters by scholars and activists contextualize the colonial legacies that have created systemic human rights violations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780776606668
• ISBN-10: 0776606662
• Artikelnr.: 24926793

Autorenporträt

Viviane Saleh-Hanna is Assistant Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Dr. Saleh-Hanna is a criminologist turned abolitionist.  Coptic and Palestinian in origin, Canadian in citizenship and PanAfricanist in her heart, she is an activist-scholar.  Prior to moving to the United States, she lived in Nigeria and worked with prisoners along the West African coastline.  Her book, Colonial Systems of Control:  Criminal Justice in Nigeria (2008) is the first to include first-hand accounts by prisoners in West Africa and the first to provide an in-depth analysis of life inside West African prisons.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
......................................................................xvii
Foreword
Julia Sudbury
.............................................................................xxi
Chapter 1: Introduction: Colonial Systems of Control
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
..................................................................... 1
SECTION I: CONTEXTUALIZING NIGERIA
Chapter 2: Penal Coloniality
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................... 17
Chapter 3: An Evolution of the Penal System: Criminal Justice in Nigeria
Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Chukwuma Ume .............................. 55
Chapter 4: The Militarization of Nigerian Society
Biko Agozino and Unyierie Idem
................................................ 69
SECTION II: NIGERIAN PRISONS: VOICES FROM INSIDE
Chapter 5: Another Face of Slavery
Osadolor Eribo
...........................................................................
121
Chapter 6: My Nigerian Prison Experience
Clever Akporherhe
..................................................................... 127
Chapter 7: My Story
Chris Affor
.................................................................................
131
Chapter 8: A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis
Chris Affor
.................................................................................
141
Chapter 9: June 14, 2003
Igho Odibo
.................................................................................
147
Chapter 10: The System I Have Come to Know
Sylvester Monday Anagaba
...................................................... 149
Chapter 11: Man's Inhumanity to Man
Sylvester Monday Anagaba
...................................................... 153
Chapter 12: Patriotism: Illusion or Reality?
Osadolor Eribo
...........................................................................
157
SECTION III: COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF IMPRISONMENT: GENDER, POVERTY AND MENTAL
HEALTH IN PRISON
Chapter 13: Nigerian Penal Interactions
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................. 173
Chapter 14: Women's Rights behind Walls
Mechthild Nagel
........................................................................
223
Chapter 15: Nigerian Women in Prison: Hostages in Law
Biko Agozino
.............................................................................
245
Chapter 16: Protecting the Human Rights of People with Mental Health
Disabilities in African Prisons
Uju Agomoh
..............................................................................
267
SECTION IV: RESISTANCE
Chapter 17: Women, Law, and Resistance in Northern Nigeria:
Understanding the Inadequacies of Western Scholarship
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................. 293
Chapter 18: Fela Kuti's Wahala Music: Political Resistance through Song
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................. 355
SECTION V: STEPPING BEYOND THE COLONIAL PENAL BOX: AFRICAN JUSTICE MODELS
AND PENAL ABOLITIONISM
Chapter 19: Alternatives to Imprisonment: Community Service Orders in
Africa
Chukwuma Ume
....................................................................... 379
Chapter 20: The Igbo Indigenous Justice System
O. Oko Elechi
............................................................................
395
Chapter 21: Penal Abolitionist Theories and Ideologies
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................. 417
Chapter 22: The Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA X)
Viviane Saleh-Hanna
................................................................. 457
Index
................................................................................................
489