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1 results foundAuthor: Sterck, Olivier Title: Who Benefits from Customary Justice? Rent-seeking, Bribery and Criminality in Sub-Saharan Africa Summary: In many Sub-Saharan countries, customary and statutory judicial systems co-exist. Customary justice is exercised by clan leaders or local courts, and based on restorative principles. By contrast, statutory justice is mostly retributive and administered by magistrates’ courts. As the jurisdiction of the customary and the statutory systems often overlap, victims can choose which judicial system to refer to, which may lead to contradictions between rules and inconsistencies in judgments. In this essay, we construct a model representing a dual judicial system. We show that the overlap of competence encourages rent-seeking and bribery, and yields to high rates of petty crimes and civil disputes. We recommend the subsidization of the statutory judicial system, as it efficiently improves deterrence and incapacitation in the dual judicial system while minimizing corruption of customary judges. We illustrate our theoretical predictions by discussing the functioning of the Ugandan dual judicial system. Details: Louvain-la-nueve, Belgium: Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales de l'Universite catholique de Louvain, 2012. 33p. Source: Discussion Paper 2012-15: Internet Resource: Accessed August 8, 2012 at http://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2012015.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Africa URL: http://sites.uclouvain.be/econ/DP/IRES/2012015.pdf Shelf Number: 125938 Keywords: Bribery (Sub-Saharan Africa)Corruption (Sub-Saharan Africa)Customs (Sub-Saharan Africa) |