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Southernising Criminology Challenges, Horizons and Praxis
This book introduces the ‘Southern criminology’ movement; explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools; offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions; and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from Southern settings.
Southernising Criminology is structured into three parts. The first part provides theoretical and methodological insights into how criminology can be Southernised, including renowned social scientists who share concerns for the need to reconceptualise the centre, the periphery, and their relations. The second part brings the reader up-to-date with the state of criminological research in different parts of the world and how far this landscape has changed when introducing Southern perspectives. The third part shows first-hand examples of how Southern criminology is done, with its challenges and transformative potential for criminological knowledge. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars working across the five continents and drawing on issues such as state criminality, violent crime, criminal justice practices, and state and non-state punishment, this book offers a critical account of the problems of metropolitan thinking, colonial and imperial power relations, and Western ethnocentric approaches to criminology. It offers a nuanced and grounded reflection on how things are being done differently and why that is important.
An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics, and policy makers from around the world who are interested in the field of criminology and are aware of the urgent need for it to be decolonised and democratised.
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
CARLA SEPULVEDA PENNA AND LUIZ DAL SANTO
PART I: Theoretical, methodological, and philosophical issues, challenges, and possibilities
1 Pressing questions, Southern answers: on Southernising criminology
LUIZ DAL SANTO AND CARLA SEPULVEDA PENNA
2 Social science on a world scale
RAEWYN CONNELL
3 Imperialism, racial capitalism, and postcolonialism
ALEX CALLINICOS
4 Southernising criminology and global social indicators
DAVID NELKEN
5 Toward a Southern criminology
E. RAUL ZAFFARONI
PART II: Criminology around the globe with a Southern lens
6 The state of criminological studies in East Asia
JIANHONG LIU, PIN YU, AND JIE ZHANG
7 Southernizing Arab criminology: a dialogical approach
ANWAR OUASSINI AND NABIL OUASSINI
8 African and counter-colonial perspectives in criminology
BIKO AGOZINO
PART III: Researching global peripheries and semi-peripheries
9 Moroccan and Guatemalan military servicemen: the role of war and genocide propaganda
MARCIA ESPARZA
10 Neocolonialism through donors aid: Northern-funded transitional justice entrepreneurs and the undermining of an independent victims’ agenda in Kenya
VALERIA VEGH WEIS
11 ‘Bad friends’ doing armed robbery in Nigeria: a theoretical and methodological exploration
CHIJIOKE J. NWALOZIE
12 Economy and punishment: current theories through a peripheral perspective
MAURICIO STEGEMANN DIETER AND RENATO GOMES DE ARAUJO ROCHA
Index
Biography
Luiz Dal Santo is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK.
Carla Sepúlveda Penna is Assistant Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.
'Southernising Criminology is a three-part compendium of essays on theory, method and praxis, meticulously edited by Luiz dal Santo and Carla Sepulveda. The authors do not shy away from the gargantuan challenges of democratising criminological knowledge that has privileged northern-centric ways of thinking for more than a century. As the chapters illustrate this unfolding project is a plural and collectivist movement of multiples voices. The journey brings theory and praxis from the margins to the centre to bridge global divides in the pursuit of a more just and inclusive criminology and criminal justice systems around the world. Southernising Criminology is essential reading for students, activists, policy makers and scholars interested in the subject.'
Kerry Carrington, Adjunct Professor, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
'Southernising Criminology as a movement in contemporary criminology is too diverse and dynamic to be defined in a textbook or captured in an ordinary handbook but Santo and Sepulveda have organized a multi generational and multinational group of leading and emerging scholars of comparative and critical criminology to provide the reader with the methodological and theoretical tools needed to join the discussion.'
Jonathan Simon, Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law, Center for the Study of Law & Society, UC Berkeley, School of Law
'This is an urgent and important book. The editors have assembled an impressive range of scholars to interrogate the theoretical, methodological and political questions posed by the ambition to ‘Southernize’ criminology. It offers an invaluable resource for serious thinking about what it means to democratise criminological knowledge production.'
Professor Ian Loader, Director, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
