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Aspects of Penal Policy in Africa, with Special Reference to Tanzania
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Although the broader purpose of this paper is to review some of the major aspects of current penal policy in Africa, I wish to emphasize the desirability of seeking new approaches to the perennial problem of how to deal with deviants generally, and criminal offenders in particular. The main thrust of penal policy in Africa today—and, indeed, in the world generally—ought, in my view, to be directed toward developing what I will call “alternatives to imprisonment”. I use “imprisonment” here as a short-hand expression to denote the entire process of criminal justice as it works in most countries, in the majority of cases, i.e., from an arrest to a court sentence to prison. Thus I am putting the question: towards what kind of penal system, in its widest sense, ought we to be working? I will suggest that the answer is: towards new and alternative means of dealing with deviance, i.e., any method of treating a person who engages in deviant behaviour other than by sending him through the complete criminal process into prison. Thus this paper will range over a wide area, including the kinds of deviant behaviour to be dealt with, the nature of the process by which the deviant is dealt with and the nature of the sanctions available to deal with deviancy.
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page 189 note 1 The Standard, July 16th, 1968.
page 189 note 2 Interim Constitution, Act 43 of 1965, s.85.
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page 189 note 4 Act No. 6 of 1969. For some of the background thinking relating to the introduction of the Tribunals (supra) and Development Committees, see J. K. Nyerere, Freedom and Development, Dar es Salaam, pamphlet, 1968.
page 189 note 5 Supplementing one of the earliest reforms to the penal code making it an offence to dissuade others from assisting in self-help schemes, Tanzania Penal Code, cap. 16, s.89(c).
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page 189 note 7 For reports of alleged thieves being beaten to death in Tanzania, see The Standard, April 18th and June 17th, 1969. See also The Sunday News (Tanzania), June 23rd, 1968, where a magistrate is reported to have said to an accused who had fled the scene of an automobile accident that he was aware “drivers are often in danger of being killed after such accidents” by local villagers.
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page 200 note 1 Saikwa, supra, p. 186, n. 7.
page 200 note 2 Respectively the national women's organization (U.W.T.); the national trade union (N.U.T.A.); the party youth organization (T.Y.L.) and the party (Tanu).
page 200 note 3 See M. Macaulay, supra, p. 186, n. 2.
page 200 note 4 See Stockdale, op. cit., 100. See also International Prisoners' Aid Association, “The role and potential value of volunteers in social defence”, (1966) 24 I.R.C.P. 69.
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page 203 note 5 See, e.g., Tanzania, Criminal Procedure Code, ss. 179–180. There is a provision for compensation in the Minimum Sentence Act, 1963, s.6(1), but it does not provide specifically for restitution.
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page 209 note 3 A great opportunity was lost when no social scientists, including lawyers, were assigned to the Tanzania Resettlement Centres, in order to evaluate the principles in practice. For a discussion of Lenin's insistence on such an approach, and his suggestion that prizes ought to be made for the best conceived and executed laws, see Bratous, op. cit., pp. 38–46.
page 211 note 1 Figures obtained from annual reports of Tanzania Police, except those for 1967 which were given in a seminar address at the New Faculty, Dar es Salaam, by Mr. G. Sawaya, Commissioner for C.I.D., November 1968.
page 211 note 1 From Appendix to “Various aspects of the imprisonment system in Tanzania: problems and prospects”; and Annual Report, Prisons Department, 1964.
page 211 note 2 This figure includes 877 juveniles (under 15).
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