Decolonising Criminology : Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World / by Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blagg, Harry, Author.

Anthony, Thalia, Author.

Series:

Critical Criminological Perspectives, 2731-0612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical criminology.

Law and the social sciences.

Criminology.

Human rights.

Juvenile delinquents.

Critical Criminology.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Crime Control and Security.

Human Rights.

Research Methods in Criminology.

Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.

Local Subjects:

Critical Criminology.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Crime Control and Security.

Human Rights.

Research Methods in Criminology.

Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 399 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed. 2019.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Summary:

This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. Through its historical and political analysis and place-based case studies, it challenges criminological inquiry by installing colonial structures of power at the centre of the contemporary criminological debate. This work unseats the Western nation-state as the singular point of departure for comparative criminological and socio-legal research. Decolonising Criminology argues that postcolonial and postdisciplinary critique can open up new pathways for criminological investigation. It builds on recent debates in criminology from outside of the Anglosphere. The authors deploy a number of heuristic devices, perspectives and theories generally ignored by criminologists of the Global North and engage perspectives concerned with articulating new decolonised epistemologies of the Global South. This book disputes the view that colonisation is a thing of the past and provides lessons for the Global North. .

Contents:

1. Introduction: Turning Criminology Upside Down

2. Postcolonial Criminology: ‘The Past Isn’t Over...’

3. ‘Who Speaks for Place?’

4. Decolonising Criminology Methodologies

5. Borders Are Strange Places: From Borders of the State to Boundaries of the Prison

6. Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice?

7. Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?.-8. Justice in the Shadow of the Camp

9. Carceral Feminism: Saving Indigenous women from Indigenous men

10. Hybrid Justice i: Indigenous Sentencing and Justice Planning

11. Hybrid Justice ii: Night Patrols and Place Based Sovereignty

12. Conclusions: State of Exception and Bare Life in Criminology and Criminal “Justice”.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-386) and index.

ISBN:

9781137532473

1137532475