Crime and Criminal Justice in Africa - Theoretical Perspectives

 

Publications

• Criminal Justice: Norms, Politics, Institutions, Processes and Constraints, Etannibi EO Alemika, March 2008 (PDF 203kb)

 

Forthcoming Monograph

AHSI aims to encourage greater focus on state responsibility and capacity to provide security by focusing on the efficacy of the criminal justice systems in Africa. This has led to the questions: What theoretical insights undergird the extant criminal justice system[s] in Africa?, and what lessons can be drawn for reform from these theoretical insights? AHSI2 is therefore compiling a theoretical monograph on crime and the criminal justice sector in Africa. Abstracts of no more than one page were invited from academics, practitioners and consultants to write a publishable theoretical paper on crime and the criminal justice sector in Africa.

The forthcoming monograph is composed of contributions from five authors who have written on the following topics:

• Prof Etannibi Alemikae - Norms, Politics, Institutions, Processes and Constraints
• Prof J Nnamdi Aduba and Emily Alemika - Bail and Criminal Justice Administration
• Dr Moses Ocharo -Crime as a Learned Behaviour
• Mr Kwesi Prempeh - Challenges of Policing: Balancing Liberty and
  Security in a Constitutional Democracy - Experiences from Ghana
• Mr Innocent Chukwuma - Community Policing