Legal Dissonance : : The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea / / Shaun Larcom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Larcom, Shaun,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782386490; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782386490?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shaun Larcom.

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.