Who benefits from customary justice? Rent-seeking, bribery and criminality in sub-Saharan Africa
In many Sub-Saharan countries, customary and statutory judicial systems co-exist. Customary justice is exercised by clan leaders or local courts, and based on restorative principles. By contrast, statutory justice is mostly retributive and administered by magistrates’ courts. As the jurisdiction of...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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