Comparative Criminal Justice Systems

Reichel, Philip L.

doi:10.1093/obo/9780195396607-0075

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“…More importantly, all these traditional forms of conflict resolution are fundamentally different from the ways conflicts are resolved in much of the Western world (Reichel, 1998). Conflict resolution in the indigenous way of the Yoruba cultural context, for example, includes cross-examination and it is the process of adducing evidence and corroborating facts of dispute which can be seen fundamentally as a legal display of wits and intelligence on the part of the legal officials (Oyeshola, 2005).…”

Section: Conflict Resolution Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous Approaches to Housing-Induced Domestic Conflict Management in Ondo City, Nigeria

Wahab¹,

Odetokun²

2014

JSD

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This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey of households and housing facilities carried out in 2007 in six wards of Ondo city in Ondo State of Nigeria. A total of 421 (2.39%) residential buildings were sampled. The study revealed that domestic conflict occurs most in tenement buildings where residents have to share facilities and amenities. This paper examines the nature, causes, and consequences of domestic conflict among residents and the methods of resolving such conflicts. It argues that indigenous strategies of conflict management work best in traditional societies and advocates their application in settlements with similar indigenous culture.

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Section: Conflict Resolution Methodsmentioning

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Indigenous Approaches to Housing-Induced Domestic Conflict Management in Ondo City, Nigeria

Wahab¹,

Odetokun²

2014

JSD

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“…Even so, the possibility cannot be ruled out that court statistics describe basic trends in offending, even if one cannot be sure whether the slopes of the observed increases or decreases are correctly depicted. This view is primarily founded on the idea that in states with a more legalistic approach, such as the Nordic countries (see Reichel 2005, p. 118 for details), court sentences do reflect the guilt of the accused.…”

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Punishment and Crime in Scandinavia, 1750–2008

Hofer¹

2011

Crime and Justice

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.The University of Chicago Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Crime and Justice.http://www.jstor.org Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden have collected criminal justice data since at least the first half of the nineteenth century. These data can be used to describe basic trends in criminal justice interventions as regards violent and property offenses. They can also be used to screen the potential effects of criminal justice interventions on crime compared with more basic structural factors such as urbanization, industrialization, migration, and control of substance use. The marginal effects of changes in criminal sanctions appear to be negligible for the development of recorded crime. These changes include use and abolition of the death penalty, the gradual replacement of imprisonment with alternative sanctions, and the shifting use of fines. The influence of urbanization and industrialization appears to be insignificant, but measures to control alcohol use have had a great effect on violence, as have changes in the opportunity structure on theft. Viewed over the long term, criminal justice interventions during the twentieth century were inefficient in controlling the development of crime and criminals in Scandinavia.There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken) Statistical data on crime and punishment in the Nordic countries are unusually good. Both Sweden and Finland have continuous time-series Hanns von Hofer is emeritus professor of criminology, Stockholm University, Sweden. He is grateful for the help and support received from an anonymous referee,

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“…Criminal justice systems vary on the basis of many historical, philosophical, and economic factors (Reichel 2005), and forest law enforcement systems are even more varied and based, in part, on issues related to the nature and value of the forest resource. Forest and natural resource law enforcement does tend to differ from general law enforcement, because of the merger of the territorial and operational management functions of forestry agencies, with those of law enforcement.…”

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confidence: 99%