Criminal justice in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras : an application of the colonial model to changes in the severity of punishment in Nigerian law / Peter O. Nwankwo.
2010
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Title
Criminal justice in the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras : an application of the colonial model to changes in the severity of punishment in Nigerian law / Peter O. Nwankwo.
Published
Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
KTA3409 .N933 2010
Former Call Number
Nig 800 N98 2010
ISBN
9780761846574 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0761846573 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780761846468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761846468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761846476 (e-book)
9780761846475 (e-book)
0761846573 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780761846468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761846468 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0761846476 (e-book)
9780761846475 (e-book)
Description
xxiv, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)401146031
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-361) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1.
Introduction
1
2.
Historical Origin of Nigeria and King Jaja of Opobo's Encounter with European Traders
17
3.
Literature Review and Methodology
33
4.
Inseparability of Colonial and Postcolonial Eras and an Imagery of Wole Soyinka's Ake Town
43
5.
Frantz Fanon's Colonial Model
65
6.
Application of the Colonial Model
76
7.
Global History of Police, Law Enforcement, and the Police System in Nigeria
93
8.
Court Systems
130
9.
Punishment Procedures and Sentencing Patterns
167
10.
Law: Theory and Practice
191
11.
Changes in the Rank Order of Severity of Punishment
226
12.
Changes in the Rank Order of Crimes
239
13.
The History of Punishment and the Post-Colonial Nigerian Prison System
256
14.
The Legislature and the Making of the Laws
283
15.
Criminology and Criminal Justice in Practice
299
16.
Conceptual Framework: Locating Crime and Punishment in the Human Enterprise
323
Summary and Conclusions
341
References
349
Internet Resources for Student Homework
363
Appendix A
Commonwealth Countries: Prison Reforms/Addresses
365
Appendix B
Federal Government Agencies
381
Appendix C
Primary Sources of Nigerian Legal System
383
Appendix D
Secondary Sources
385
Appendix E
Journals and Legal Publishers
389
Appendix F
Diary of Coups
391
Appendix G
Glossary of Ibo (Non-English) Words
395
Index
397
Note on the Editor
403
Note on the Assistant Editor
405
About the Author
407