This policy brief summarises research made in 3 African states into both the official and informal roles of customary law and attitudes towards it.
This research has attempted to identify the structural and institutional weaknesses of contemporary policing in three African states.
Despite substantially increasing populations and crime rates in recent decades, the capacity of prison systems has barely changed.
British law has evolved in the decades since decolonisation, reform in the justice systems of these 3 states has been inadequate.
