TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saleh-Hanna,Viviane
TI  - Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria 
SN  - 9780776617497
PB  - University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
KW  - Social Science / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/ea2fbee5-b4fa-4a05-867a-dcc913211943
ER  -