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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Main Author: Larcom, Shaun
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Berghahn Books 2015
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:1
Subjects:
Anthropology (General)
Criminal law
Criminal law-Papua New Guinea
Criminology
Customary law
Customary law-Papua New Guinea
Law Enforcement
Papua New Guinea
Political Freedom & Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Sociological jurisprudence
Sociological jurisprudence-Papua New Guinea
Sociology
Anthropology (General)
ISBN:1782386491, 9781782386490, 9781782386483, 1782386483
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Summary: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.
ISBN:1782386491
9781782386490
9781782386483
1782386483
DOI:10.1515/9781782386490