Legal Dissonance: The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea

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 coor...

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1. Verfasser: Larcom, Shaun (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2015]
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (188 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782386490
DOI:10.1515/9781782386490

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