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Aliverti, Ana J. and Carvalho, Henrique and Chamberlen, Anastasia and Sozzo, Maximo, eds. (2023) Decolonizing the criminal question : colonial legacies, contemporary problems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192899002
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Abstract
Within the discipline of criminology and criminal justice, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between criminal law, punishment, and imperialism, or the contours and exercise of penal power in the Global South. Decolonizing the Criminal Question is the first work of its kind to comprehensively place colonialism and its legacies at the heart of criminological enquiry.
By examining the reverberations of colonial history and logics in the operation of penal power, this volume explores the uneasy relationship between criminal justice and colonialism, bringing relevance of these legacies in criminological enquiries to the forefront of the discussion. It invites and pursues a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonialism on the one hand, and nationalism and globalization on the other, by exposing the imprints of these links on processes of marginalization, racialization, and exclusion that are central to contemporary criminal justice practices. Covering a range of jurisdictions and themes, Decolonizing the Criminal Question details how colonial and imperial domination relied on the internalization of hierarchies and identities — for example, racial, geographical, and geopolitical — of both the colonized and the colonizer, and shaped their subjectivity through imageries, discourses, and technologies.
Offering innovative, conceptual, and methodological approaches to the study of the criminal question, this work is an essential read for scholars not only focused on criminology and criminal justice, but also for scholars in law, anthropology, sociology, politics, history, and a range of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law [Moys] > KB General and Comparative Law |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Criminal law -- Developing countries -- History, Decolonization, Developing countries -- Colonization | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780192899002 | ||||||
Editor: | Aliverti, Ana J. and Carvalho, Henrique and Chamberlen, Anastasia and Sozzo, Maximo | ||||||
Official Date: | 8 June 2023 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 416 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 June 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 June 2023 | ||||||
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