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OverviewPapua 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shaun LarcomPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781782386483ISBN 10: 1782386483 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 01 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 ReferencesReviewsThis is a valuable, original contribution to the issue of the development of state policy on criminal law in a society in which there is a strong unofficial customary law for the remedying of wrongs. * Gordon R. Woodman, University of Birmingham Author InformationShaun 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 Hugel 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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