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Southern criminology

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posted on 2018-01-01, 00:00 authored by Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Maximo Sozzo, Reece WaltersReece Walters
"ensuremathCriminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias.ensuremath ensuremathThis book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing criminology’s long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to Lombroso’s theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering criminology’s colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the over-representation of Indigenous peoples in settler societies drawn into the criminal justice system; analysing the ways in which the sociology of punishment literature has also been based on Northern theories, which assume that forms of penalty roll out from the Global North to the rest of the world; and making the case that the harmful effects of eco-crimes and global warming are impacting more significantly on the Global South. The book also explores how the coloniality of gender shapes patterns of violence in the Global South.ensuremath ensuremathSouthern criminology is not a new sub-discipline within criminology, but rather a journey toward cognitive justice. It promotes a perspective that aims to invent methods and concepts that bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of knowledge, more befitting of global criminology in the twenty-first century.ensuremath"–publisher website

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Pagination

1 - 214

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

London, Eng.

ISBN-13

9781138721296

ISBN-10

1138721298

Language

eng

Publication classification

A1.1 Books - authored - research

Number of chapters

6

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