Crime and Penal Policy in Zambia

John Hatchard

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Crime and Penal Policy in Zambia

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In recent years, many developing countries have undergone rapid and extensive socio-economic changes which generally have brought with them an increase in criminality. This is a trend which continues to cause grave concern. Indeed, the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 35/171 of 15 December 1980 noted the significant increase in crime and recognised that this impairs the overall development of nations, undermines people's spiritual and material well-being, compromises human dignity, and creates a climate of fear and violence that erodes the quality of life. The response to criminality therefore becomes of the utmost importance and, indeed, the political and economic stability of any society can be seriously affected if the government is seen as being incapable of dealing with the problem.

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Information: The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1985 , pp. 483 - 505

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X00057190 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 488 note 1} Zambia Police, Annual Reports, 1969 onwards.

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^{page 490 note 1} Minister for Legal Affairs, ibid. 30 July 1974, col. 312.

^{page 490 note 2} Cutshall, loc. cit.

^{page 491 note 2} Ibid. 1980.

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^{page 494 note 2} Criminal Appeal Reports (London), 35, p. 164.Google Scholar

^{page 494 note 3} Criminal Appeal Reports, 35, p. 265. The Zambian national philosophy of Humanism advocates reformation as the sole aim of punishment. However, the courts have taken a very different approach.

^{page 496 note 1} Zambia Prisons Department, Annual Reports, 1965 and 1980.

^{page 497 note 2} Clinard and Abbott, op. cit.

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^{page 499 note 3} Chilila, loc. cit.

^{page 500 note 1} The first official mention of ‘instant’justice is found in Department of African Affairs, Annual Report (Lusaka), 1958.Google Scholar PubMed

^{page 501 note 1} Parliamentary Debates, 27 February 1973, col. 1598.

^{page 501 note 2} For a useful discussion on this point, see ‘Report of the African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders’, Addis Ababa, 21 December 1983.

^{page 502 note 1} U.N. General Assembly Resolution 36/21 of 9 November 1982.

^{page 502 note 2} ‘Report of the African Regional Preparatory Meeting…’, Addis Ababa, December 1983.

^{page 502 note 3} Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, 1980, Resolution 8.

^{page 502 note 4} See, for example, ‘Humane Treatment of Offenders’: Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations Economic and Social Council, Vienna, 1984.

^{page 503 note 1} For a full discussion, see Thornstedt, Hans, ‘The Day-Fine System in Sweden,’ in Criminal Law Review (London), 1975, pp. 307–12.Google Scholar

^{page 504 note 1} Section 175 of the Criminal Procedure Code, Chapter 160 of the Laws of Zambia.

^{page 504 note 2} Clifford, 1969, loc. cit.

^{page 504 note 3} ‘Report of the African Regional Preparatory Meeting…’, Addis Ababa, 1983.

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