Asian Criminology and the Globalization of Comparative Studies

• In Event: Globalising and Democratising Criminology

Abstract

In general, comparative criminology is largely a Western enterprise. The lack of comparative studies involving non-Western social contexts and justice systems and the dominance of Western-based criminology is a major weakness of the discipline of criminology as well as of comparative criminology. This important limitation of criminology has been recognized by prominent scholars (Aas 2012; Carrington et al. 2016; Connell 2007; Walklate 2015; Young 2011). These scholars suggest the critical importance of developing non-Western criminologies for the growth of global criminology. This paper explores how Asian criminology stands at the positive intersection of the north-south and east-west contributes to the project of democratizing criminological knowledge.

Author

• Jianhong Liu, The University of Macau