Internationalising Convict Criminology: Beyond Europe and the Global North

• In Event: Convict Criminology Panel #2: Internationalizing Convict Criminology

Abstract

Until quite recently, Convict Criminology (CC) was very much a North American phenomenon. Since the early 2010s, however, the perspective has been taken up by a small but productive number of academic criminologists in the UK, Italy and most recently Brazil and Australia. Through our connections with higher education prison programs internationally, the CC research group at University of Westminster is exploring possibilities to develop the perspective in other parts of Europe and South America. But the question remains what needs to be done for Convict Criminology to become a truly international phenomenon that equally engages with the lived experience of justice impacted people in Asia, Africa and other parts of Latin American and the Caribbean. A major objective of Convict Criminology is to challenge the hierarchies of knowledge between researcher and research participant. To become an authentic academic movement, it is imperative that Convict Criminology also challenges hierarchies of knowledge between the Global North and Global South.

Authors

• Sacha Darke, University of Westminster

• Andreas Aresti, University of Westminster