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- Explores the relationship between compensation and reconciliation in the light of practices of conflict settlement informed by Islamic normativity and local practice
- Reassesses the relationship of several components of conflict settlement, including international and domestic dimensions, religious impacts, and various local legal practices
- A timely and long-lasting contribution to research on national reconciliation policies in Anthropology, Legal Studies, Area Studies, and beyond
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Shedding light on this under-studied topic from the North African field, this volume investigates: What meanings can compensation have when it is aimed at repairing crimes? Is it necessary, sufficient, or admissible? How can it be implemented and accepted by the victims themselves and by society? These questions about compensation lead the reader through discussions on the nature of crime, punishment, reparation, reconciliation, and the way these concepts were and are now understood in these three North African countries.
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"Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and an intimate knowledge of North Africa, this book presents a detailed insight into the dynamics of conflict resolution among the region’s tribal people. It raises important questions about the nature of tribes, the role and nature of assessments of intention in criminal and other legal processes, and the relationship between processes of reconciliation, mediation, reparations, and compensation. It should interest any scholar of North Africa and of tribal people."
— Fernanda Pirie, Professor of the Anthropology of Law, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK
"This book illuminates compensation as an essential element of non-violent settlement of conflicts involving human damage and homicide and examines its interplay with other components of the repertoire of conflict management. Using thick ethnographic data from three North African countries, it details how these components co-constitute one another at grassroots and national levels. Moreover, it impressively shows how such interrelatedness translates into politics of reconciliation after incidents of serious state injustice."
— Bertram Turner, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
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Book Title: Crime and Compensation in North Africa
Book Subtitle: A Social Anthropology Essay
Authors: Yazid Ben Hounet
Translated by: Christine Sagar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70906-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70905-1Published: 13 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70906-8Published: 12 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 140
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, African Politics, History of North Africa