While I have not read the quoted book, the first quote "Because European colonialists saw no jails, police, lawyers, judges, or courts in African indigenous soc

While I have not read the quoted book, the first quote "Because European colonialists saw no jails, police, lawyers, judges, or courts in African indigenous societies, they mistakenly concluded these cultures had no way to address social conflict and wrongdoing" is more than odd given that most Europeans didn't have most of those things either until the 1800's. Thus, people would have been alive who remembered days before police and jails (as punishment, not holding before judgement/punishment). The first police force (as we would understand it today) in the world was formed in London in 1829. The second quote, "In Western culture, we are socialized to believe that the desire to inflict counterviolence upon or retaliate against someone who has hurt us or a loved one is innate and that justice has always been done and will always be done in this way. In fact, far from universal or natural, this adversarial vision of justice is a relatively recent cultural and historical construction, arising around AD 1200 with the dawning of the nation-state and racial capitalism [my emphasis]." is also a strikingly bizarre take. I don't understand how anyone could think this.