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.

List of contents

Introduction PART I: Theoretical, methodological, and philosophical issues, challenges, and possibilities 1 Pressing questions, Southern answers: on Southernising criminology 2 Social science on a world scale 3 Imperialism, racial capitalism, and postcolonialism 4 Southernising criminology and global social indicators 5 Toward a Southern criminology PART II: Criminology around the globe with a Southern lens 6 The state of criminological studies in East Asia 7 Southernizing Arab criminology: a dialogical approach 8 African and counter-colonial perspectives in criminology PART III: Researching global peripheries and semi-peripheries 9 Moroccan and Guatemalan military servicemen: the role of war and genocide propaganda 10 Neocolonialism through donors aid: Northern-funded transitional justice entrepreneurs and the undermining of an independent victims' agenda in Kenya 11 'Bad friends' doing armed robbery in Nigeria: a theoretical and methodological exploration 12 Economy and punishment: current theories through a peripheral perspective

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Luiz Sepulveda Penna Dal Santo
• Assisted by: Luiz dal Santo (Editor), Carla Sepúlveda Penna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032394473
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3239447-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Colonialism & imperialism, Regional Studies, Legal aspects of criminology, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Criminology: legal aspects, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Social law and Medical law, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity