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Sad-Cup-5521 t1_j443bnn wrote

Hi You lived my dream! Are their crimes and disputes amongst the nomads? How do they handle it? What is their justice / legal system?

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worldtravelstephanie OP t1_j4mrwjj wrote

I hope you get to experience it as well then!

There are disputes more frequently than crimes as far as I experienced, it’s not a Utopia by any means and humans are humans after all! In Siberia their justice system is divided by gender, so I never saw how the men held ‘court’. However, if two people could not come to an agreement, or a taboo was broken, the elders hold ‘court’. Depending on the seriousness more of the community becomes involved. I never witnessed anything serious. Amongst the Kazakhs I never experienced any crimes and only a minor dispute, so I can’t say much to it. It was very family centric, so issues usually went to the oldest grandfather. When I first got there however, from what I can tell, they were at the end of a lengthy crime by an uncle. A crime I think was pertaining to opium and mishandling the families goat herd (he lost some or traded it for opium? I came in as he was leaving). However the decision was made, I know multiple families were involved and ultimately they forced him to leave with nothing and his wife stayed in the family with her kids.

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