Globalising and Democratising Criminology

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The production of knowledge in the social sciences is heavily skewed towards a select number of English speaking countries in the Global North, whose journals, conferences, publishers and universities dominate the intellectual landscape. In recent times, there have been substantial efforts to undo this colonized way of thinking (Connell, 2007; de Souza Santos 2014; Mignolo 2012, Carrington et al, 2018). Southern theories, knowledges and border epistemologies have opened up new ways of thinking about society, crime, law and justice. In this panel, some of the authors of Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (2018) open up a dialogue about how we might as a collective of scholars begin to bridge global divides to trans-nationalise and democratise knowledge about crime, law and justice.

Sub Unit

• Area IX. Comparative & Historical Perspectives / 58. Globalization, Crime, and Justice

Division of Special Interests

• Division Session of Interest / Division of International Criminology

• Division Session of Interest / Division of White Collar and Corporate Crime

• Division Session of Interest / Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice

• Division Session of Interest / Division on Women & Crime

Individual Presentations

• Confronting the North's South: Race and Violence in America - Elliot Currie, University of California

• Globalising Feminist Criminology: Innovations in Preventing Gendered Violence from the Global South - Meda Chesney-Lind, University of Hawaii; Kerry Carrington, Queensland University of Technology

• Asian Criminology and the Globalization of Comparative Studies - Jianhong Liu, The University of Macau

• Nigerian research into online offending: The importance of recognizing contributions from the Global South - Cassandra Cross, Queensland University of Technology

Chair

• Rob White, University of Tasmania