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Developing
Cultural Criminology
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Banks,
C, (ed) Developing Cultural Criminology: Theory & Practice
in Papua New Guinea
(RRP $33.00 including GST) ISBN 1864873213
This book presents a discussion of criminological issues in
the 'Third World' with particular reference to Papua New Guinea,
a country known for its serious law and order problems and
its high incidence of violence, especially gang violence.
The collection contains a series of studies of crime &
social issues in Papua New Guinea based on each author's original
research. The studies are concerned with: the Melanesia conception
and meaning of violence; street begging in Port Moresby; drug
control; 'raskol' (criminal) gangs, education and the "problem"
of youth; the prison experience for a Melanesian; dispute
settlement between mining companies and villagers; State responses
to violence through the criminal justice system and informal
approaches to the resolution of crime, including the surrender
of criminal gangs. The collection emphasises that 'Third World'
criminology has been marginalised by being subsumed in the
Western discourse on crime. As Professor Stanley Cohen writes
in the Preface, "it is a measure of the continuing ethnocentricity
of Western-dominated criminology that a volume of this sort,
under this title, is still necessary."
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