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" Criminal Justice Legitimacy in a Monarchy: Moroccan Experiences and Perceptions "
Nabil Ouassini
Verma, Arvind
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804629
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TL49464
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1928917022; 10286767
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Yamani, Abdelmalek
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Criminal Justice Legitimacy in a Monarchy: Moroccan Experiences and Perceptions\ Nabil OuassiniVerma, Arvind
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Indiana University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Criminal Justice
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2017
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187
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Committee members: Berg, Mark; Brauer, Jonathan; Parnell, Philip; Schlegel, Kip
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-06883-2
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There is a general deficiency in the study of the criminal justice system in Arab countries that prevails in contrast to the accomplishments in this field by criminologists studying other parts of the world. The recent demonstrations, protests, and revolutions have increased academic interest in the region especially in the problems related to corruption and human rights violations in various government institutions and amongst criminal justice actors. In the Arab Spring, Morocco has been frequently portrayed as an exception that has averted the challenges faced by the region’s revolutionary fervor. The purpose of the following study is to examine citizens’ perceptions of criminal justice legitimacy in Morocco. Data was collected from qualitative in-depth interviews, non-participant observations, and an assortment of secondary data. Through a purposive snowball sample, thirty-six participants were interviewed over a period of six months in the city of Tangier, Morocco. The findings reveal the underlying roles that civil society is playing in shifting discourses on criminal justice legitimacy that include; the conceptualization of legitimacy through religiously oriented critiques; dual notions of fairness in the micro individual level and of effectiveness in the macro structural level when comparing the criminal justice systems of the reigns of Hassan II and Mohammed VI; and the impact of neoliberal economic reforms in empowering the various stakeholders in civil society who are negotiating with the state concerning criminal justice issues. The overall results reconceptualize criminal justice legitimacy, address limitations in the literature while developing and expanding the knowledge of a non-Western, semi-authoritarian, monarchical case study with wide-ranging implications for regional criminal justice policies.
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North African Studies; Sociology; Criminology
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Social sciences;Civil society;Criminal justice;Legitimacy;Morocco;North africa
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Verma, Arvind
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Criminal JusticeIndiana University
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