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Describes how Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary and state law - undermine each other in criminal matters.
Explains how a lack of co-ordination in the punishing of wrong behaviour is problematic for legal orders and for those who are subject to such a legal phenomenon
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Shaun Larcom is Lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a departmental fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He is also a research associate at the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund's College Cambridge. He has published a number of book chapters and journal articles, including in the Law and Society Review, Journal of Legal Pluralism, the Law and Development Review, and the Review of Law and Economics.
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Describes how Papua New Guinea's two most powerful legal orders - customary and state law - undermine each other in criminal matters. Explains how a lack of co-ordination in the punishing of wrong behaviour is problematic for legal orders and for those who are subject to such a legal phenomenon
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“This is a valuable, original contribution to the issue of the development of state policy on criminal law in a society in which there is a strong unofficial customary law for the remedying of wrongs.” · Gordon R. Woodman, University of Birmingham
