The Palgrave handbook of racial injustice and resistance / edited by Thalia Anthony, Monish Bhatia, Kathryn Pillay, Jason M. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anthony, Thalia

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice, 2946-5486

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical criminology.

Race.

Social justice.

Social policy.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Law--History.

Human rights.

Critical Criminology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Justice.

Global Social Policy.

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Politics and Human Rights.

Local Subjects:

Critical Criminology.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Social Justice.

Global Social Policy.

Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

Politics and Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (861 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2026.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Summary:

“A timely collection of important writings on radical criminology rooted in abolition and decolonisation, this Handbook offers a much-needed map of racial injustice and resistance to it in a global context." Avery F. Gordon, Visiting Professor, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London and author of The Hawthorn Archives: Letters from the Utopian Margins "This cutting-edge collection challenges Eurocentric social scientific understandings of crime, law, and social control and stimulates new, much needed ways of thinking critically about these topics. It is an essential source of reference for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of criminology, deviance and social control, criminological theory, social policy, race and ethnic relations, and criminal justice." Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University This Handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe. It consists of high-profile contributions that expose structural relations, global colonial and imperial histories, class oppression, and ongoing hegemonic domination that generate racial injustices and are embedded in criminalization and law enforcement. The Handbook considers racist ideologies and their origins, racist institutions, procedures, and practices, and their impacts, and resistance/collective responses to racism. It includes a range of different types of chapters including conceptual/theoretical, empirical, methodological, practitioner, and activist insights. It speaks to contemporary issues and is first of its kind to address racial injustice on a global scale. It is explicitly anti-racist and gathers works of critical criminology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and cognate fields. The Handbook pays special attention to intersectional dynamics including nexuses of racism, class, gender, and sexuality. The Handbook focusses on the settler-colonial and global majority countries, their peoples and their struggles, including questions of Indigenous justice. Thalia Anthony is Professor at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Sociology at University of York, UK. Kathryn Pillay is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Jason M. Williams is Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University, USA.

Contents:

Introduction: Racial injustice and the global crisis of state violence

Explanatory frameworks for racism

Genocide is not a metaphor: Reflections on Gaza and the denial of the crime of genocide

Problems of whiteness and the criminological imagination

Racial inequality and the judicial system in colonial India: Resistance and abolition

Displacement as racial injustice: slow violence in Caribbean landscapes

The discourse of legitimate defense and the Black body as a strategic field of state intervention

One tragedy after another: structural violence, necropolitics, People of Colour and Police Caused Deaths

Zemiology and epistemological justice: reconstructing the study of social harm to adequately account for race

Colonial injustice and decolonial imaginaries

One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic encounters racism in the law school

Can Criminology Decolonise… And Do We Care?

The problem with justice: A case study of the response to colonial violence and possibilities for justice in Nigeria and Canada

Incarceration as Colonisation: Indigenous Imprisonment and Self-Determination in Australia and Kanaky

Red and Black, Back-to-Back

Intersectional harms of criminal injustice

Stigma and penalty in the everyday lives of Black British young women: The case of Child Q

Religion, national identity, and racial injustice in Southeast Asia

Racist law enforcement

Spitting Truth(s) to Power: Rap Music as Evidence of Racial Injustice

Policing the cost-of-living crisis in England & Wales: Neoliberalism, Austerity, and Racism

Latina/o/x/e Residents and Racialized Social Control in the Settler Colonial State Known as the United States of America

“Kwela Kwela- The Big Police Van”: Racialised policing in South Africa and Australia

Prejudice plus power The truth about racism inside the Northern Territory Police

Racial profiling, policing and lack of accountability

The Breeding Ground for Institutional Racism: Policing Others and Racial Capitalism in Europe

Reinvented and expanded racialised punitiveness

Racial gaslighting in Britain: politics and power

Tagging, privacy intrusion and racial injustice: The case of GPS monitoring and migrant rights in the United Kingdom

Race and the impact of the first crimmigration controls today

Racial injustice and risk frameworks in Aotearoa

Resistance and Counter-Resistance

Police Violence and Insurrection: Thinking About the 2020 Uprising as an Anti-colonial and Anti-racist Abolitionist Moment

Abolitionist Ancestry

Make America Great Again… Again: Race, Counter-Resistance, and “Anti-Wokeness” as a Political Movement toward Hegemonic Social Control

Forging resistance against coloniality: Transforming racialised institutions.

ISBN:

3-032-02242-8

9783032022424