TY  - BOOK
AU  - Larcom,Shaun
TI  - Legal Dissonance: The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea 
SN  - 9781782386483
AV  - KWH46.7 
U1  - 345.953 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Criminal law
KW  - Papua New Guinea
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Sociological jurisprudence
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology (General)
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction Papua New Guinea, Legal Pluralism, and Law and Economics --; Chapter 1 Customary Law and the State Criminal Law --; Chapter 2 Historical Overview of the State, Criminal Law and Customary Law --; Chapter 3 Empirical Study of the Sanction of Wrongs in the New Guinea Islands --; Chapter 4 Legal Dissonance in Papua New Guinea --; Chapter 5 Past Reforms that Failed --; Conclusion Reforming the Prosecution Process --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders — customary law and state law —undermine one another in criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance, partly explains the low level of personal security found in many parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of coordination in the punishing of wrong behavior is both problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are subject to such legal phenomena Legal dissonance can lead to behavior being simultaneously promoted by one legal order and punished by the other, leading to injustice, and, perhaps more importantly, undermining the ability of both legal orders to deter wrongdoing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386490?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386490
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ER  -