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Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and expanding population, a stagnant economy, corruption, and rising crime. The state has not only failed to contain these problems but has become progressively implicated in their persistence. Escalating levels of violence and lawlessness are seen by many as the most serious challenge facing the young country. This book examines these problems of order in light of Papua New Guinea’s remarkable social diversity and the impact of rapid and pervasive processes of change. Three original and strategic case studies involving urban gangs, mining security, and election violence form the core of the work. Each case study looks at particular forms of conflict, and the responses these engender, across different socioeconomic contexts and geographic locations. Empirical data are analyzed through a common framework that employs material, cultural and institutional perspectives, allowing readers to view the three cases through different theoretical prisms, identify linkages between them, and, in the process, build a larger picture of the post-colonial social order. Law and Order in a Weak State charts not only the problems of crime and lawlessness in Papua New Guinea but also the possibilities for constructive, pragmatic solutions. It will be of great interest to scholars, aid and policy officials, and others concerned with understanding the social complexities and challenges of contemporary 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 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.
What is an appropriate theoretical approach to criminology in the "Third World"? This book makes an argument for cultural specificity and the development of a cultural criminology appropriate to a particular country. It contains original criminological studies that apply these notions to Papua New Guinea, where law and order problems are rife, especially gang violence. A major strength of the volume is the inter-disciplinary authorship which include Stanley Cohen, Marilyn Strathern, Cyndi Banks, Sinclair Dineen, Henry Ivarature, Adam Reed, Karen Sykes, Richard Sikani, and Tony Crook. These distinguished criminologists and anthropologists contribute studies of crime and social issues in Papua New Guinea based on their original research. The book has chapters on: The Melanesian conception and meaning of violence Street begging in Port Moresby Drug control Raskol (criminal) gangs, education and the "problem" of youth The prison experience for a Melanesian Dispute settlement between mining companies and villagers State responses to violence through the criminal justice system and informal approaches to the resolution of crime, including the surrender of criminal gangs The collection emphasises that "Third World" criminology has been marginalised by being subsumed in the Western discourse on crime. As Professor Stanley Cohen writes in the preface, "it is a measure of the continuing ethnocentricity of western-dominated criminology that a volume of this sort, under this title, is still necessary."
This textbook is one of eight (8) textbooks written under my hand and supervision: 'Injia on Criminal Offences in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Criminal Practice and Procedure in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Sentencing in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Statutory Interpretation in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Coronial Proceedings in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Investigatory Practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Contempt of Court in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Evidence in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'. Each of those textbooks is an effort to offer to Judicial officers, legal practitioners and students of law a comprehensive set of principles and practical guidelines on criminal law and practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The work undertaken under the auspices of AusAID through the PNG-Australia Law and Justice Partnership Project is an extension of a similar project undertaken previously in writing the textbook Criminal Law and Practice in Papua New Guinea co-authored by myself, Professor Don Chalmers, Dr Weisbrot and Justice Andrew. The textbooks will be of great benefit to the criminal justice system in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific and specifically will assist judges, magistrates, lawyers, law students and police officers in the performance of their duties.
This textbook is one of eight (8) textbooks written under my hand and supervision: 'Injia on Criminal Offences in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Criminal Practice and Procedure in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Sentencing in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Statutory Interpretation in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Coronial Proceedings in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Investigatory Practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Contempt of Court in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Evidence in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'. Each of those textbooks is an effort to offer to Judicial officers, legal practitioners and students of law a comprehensive set of principles and practical guidelines on criminal law and practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The work undertaken under the auspices of AusAID through the PNG-Australia Law and Justice Partnership Project is an extension of a similar project undertaken previously in writing the textbook Criminal Law and Practice in Papua New Guinea co-authored by myself, Professor Don Chalmers, Dr Weisbrot and Justice Andrew. The textbooks will be of great benefit to the criminal justice system in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific and specifically will assist judges, magistrates, lawyers, law students and police officers in the performance of their duties.
This textbook is one of eight (8) textbooks written under my hand and supervision: 'Injia on Criminal Offences in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Criminal Practice and Procedure in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Sentencing in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Statutory Interpretation in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Coronial Proceedings in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Investigatory Practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Contempt of Court in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'; 'Injia on Evidence in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific'. Each of those textbooks is an effort to offer to Judicial officers, legal practitioners and students of law a comprehensive set of principles and practical guidelines on criminal law and practice in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The work undertaken under the auspices of AusAID through the PNG-Australia Law and Justice Partnership Project is an extension of a similar project undertaken previously in writing the textbook Criminal Law and Practice in Papua New Guinea co-authored by myself, Professor Don Chalmers, Dr Weisbrot and Justice Andrew. The textbooks will be of great benefit to the criminal justice system in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific and specifically will assist judges, magistrates, lawyers, law students and police officers in the performance of their duties.