1st Edition
Community Courts and Postcolonial Legal Pluralism Criminal Justice in Mozambique
By Tina Lorizzo
Copyright 2024
162 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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By focusing on the role of community courts in Mozambique, this book offers a postcolonial perspective on legal pluralism. In Mozambique, judicial courts are distant and expensive, and legal terminology is incomprehensible to the majority of people. As such, Mozambicans continue to rely on different normative systems to resolve their disputes – systems that have always been considered to be... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Criminal Justice: The Limits of Legal Pluralism and the Possibilities of Postcolonial Studies 3. The State’s Approach to Non-State Forms of Conflict Resolution in Criminal Justice 4. Framing the Functioning of Community Courts in Maputo through Postcolonial Lenses 5. Conclusions and Recommendations
Biography
Tina Lorizzo is Director of REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
