ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers a critical appraisal of postcolonial law and justice. It examines the challenges of creating a credible, effective, and efficient social control system for a postcolony and recommend solutions to nagging law and justice problems facing the emerging nation. The book examines the following Nigerian component subsystems of law and justice: legislature, law enforcement, courts and tribunals, and correctional institutions. It identifies and analyzes various hindrances to proper law and justice reconstruction in Nigeria. The book considers the essential characteristics of law making and law enforcement, and law application and judgment execution in a reconstructed postcolonial law and justice system. In the area of law and justice, the British colonizing authority imported the English common law system and made it the "general law" of the new nation, Nigeria.
