Legal Dissonance

The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-648-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state law —undermine one another in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, partly explains the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of coordination in the punishing of wrong behavior is both problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are subject to such legal phenomena Legal dissonance can lead to behavior being simultaneously promoted by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice, and, perhaps more importantly, undermining the ability of both legal orders to deter wrongdoing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Larcom, Shaun

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illiustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Papua New Guinea, Legal Pluralism, and Law and Economics

Chapter 1. Customary Law and the State Criminal Law

Chapter 2. Historical Overview of the State, Criminal Law and Customary Law

Chapter 3. Empirical Study of the Sanction of Wrongs in the New Guinea Islands

Chapter 4. Legal Dissonance in Papua New Guinea

Chapter 5. Past Reforms that Failed

Conclusion: Reforming the Prosecution Process

References

Über Autor(innen)

Larcom, Shaun
Shaun Larcom is Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a departmental fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.  He is also a research associate at the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund's College Cambridge. He has published a number of book chapters and journal articles, including in the Law and Society Review, Journal of Legal Pluralism, the Law and Development Review, and the Review of Law and Economics.