RT Article
T1 Reforming Nigerian Prisons: Rehabilitating a 'Deviant' State
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 45
IS 4
SP 487
OP 503
A1 Jefferson, Andrew M.
LA Undetermined
YR 2005
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639654682
AB Analysis based on ethnographic fieldwork in Nigerian prisons and training institutions suggests that human rights training interventions can be seen as an attempt to rehabilitate a deviant state, and as a form of global social control. External intervention strategies and the uncritical use of training as a universal solution are shown to have fundamental weaknesses in terms of their intended rehabilitative' aims and in relation to the realities of prison practice that they are confronted by. Such interventions are conceptualized as part of a global(izing) strategy that inadvertently reproduces conditions of domination by creating the appearance of a desire to help', whilst distracting attention from broader issues of global socio-political, economic and material (in)equality
K1 Strafvollzugsreform
K1 Nigeria
K1 Staatskriminalität
K1 Menschenrechtsverletzung