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CSS356:Traditional and Informal mechanisms of Crime Control
CSS 356: Traditional And Informal mechanisms of Crime Control is a 3-credit unit course. The course has no compulsory prerequisite for it to be registered for. The course guide informs us on what this course is all about, what students should appreciate in each unit, what text materials we shall use and how we can make the best use of these materials. This course guide also emphasizes the need for students to take tutor marked assignments so seriously. However, necessary information on tutor marked assignments shall be made known to students in a separate file, which will be sent to each of them at the appropriate time. This course is also supported with periodic tutorial classes.
What Will You Learn?
CSS 356: Traditional And Informal Mechanisms of crime control as a course in the field of criminology at the National Open University of Nigeria focuses on a wide range of issues that bother on traditional use of age-grade system, norms and mores, oat taking, witchcraft, Juju and divination among other s in preventing, detecting and controlling crime which engenders discipline with sanctions to erring members of the society.
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• Define and explain Traditional and Informal mechanism if crime control
• Connections and disconnections with the formal mechanism system
• What is the nature of the relationship among Control, Justice and Law – the dichotomies discussed?
• Philosophical and pragmatic components of Native African versus western thoughts on social control, Justice and Law.
• Opportunities to strengthen and grow Native African mechanisms of crime control
• Correlates of formal and informal social/crime control.
• Indigenous and English policing (Control) in Nigeria
• Indigenous social control in a modern African state.
• Patterns of indigenous security maintenance
• “Ayelala” – Origin and Functions
• Judiciary and Ayelala’s challenge
• Fostering social trust and community re-integration
• Judicial system reform
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