what do African, Asian and South Pacific

among other cultures have to teach the world about justice and punishment and crime? My culture struggles with issues of revenge and justice and mercy and compassion and forgiveness so I wonder what it might be able to learn something from the way other cultures handle the issues. Is that called comparative jurisprudence? Amnesty International does not like the idea of criminals being beaten up and the eye for an eye justice system seems too primitive. They have community courts here in PNG which put big compensation penalties on wontoks for the misdeeds of one errant member. Aboriginal Elders are involved with a similar programme of justice for their young members in some parts of NSW.