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After numerous villagers recount the circumstances of both the murder and the abortions, Domenica confesses and all three defendants are tortured, Domenica escapes while awaiting sentencing. Anna receives a fifteen year prison term whereas Pietro is allowed to go free." "Village Justice: Community, Family, and Popular Culture in Early Modern Italy is an analysis of the society and culture in which Domenica and her accomplices lived."--BOOK JACKET.
Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians.