Law and Order in a Weak State

Crime and Politics in Papua New Guinea

Bibliographic Data

ID2912673
AuthorsJ Barker (0000-0002-2896-7358, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Sinclair Dinnen (0000-0002-7323-3222)
Year2002
Volume75
Issue1
Pages152
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/4127282
OpenAlexW1991871780
LanguageEN
Citations received38

Twenty-five years after independence, Papua New Guinea is beset by social, economic, and political problems: poverty and inequality, a young and expanding population, a stagnant economy, corruption, and rising crime. This book examines these problems of order in light of Papua New Guinea's remarkable social diversity and the impact of rapid and pervasive processes of change.Three original and strategic case studies involving urban gangs, mining security, and election violence form the core of the work. Each case study looks at particular forms of conflict, and the responses these engender, across different socioeconomic contexts and geographic locations. Empirical data are analysed through a common framework that employs material, cultural, and institutional perspectives, allowing readers to view the three cases through different theoretical prisms, identify link-ages between them, and, in the process, build a larger picture of the post-colonial social order

Criminology · Economics · Ethnology · New guinea · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Mathematics · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

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