Penality in the south(-s) (3): Southern (border) criminology (2)

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

In line with Southern Criminology and similar theses, an increasing number of scholars have warned against ethnocentric and self-referential analyses on penality, in an effort to push the cognitive – and geographical – boundaries of academic conversations on the penal field. Border criminology is one of the spheres in which these proposals make particular sense. Current debates on immigration enforcement and bordered penality have much to gain from considering under-explored jurisdictions, viewpoints and methodologies. This academic endeavour might significantly contribute to grasp the diversity of penality arrangements witnessed in this field.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Crime Control and the Immigration System

Chair

• Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna

Individual Presentations

• Researching borders in the peripheries: methods, language and situated knowledge to avoid “orientalism” in cross-borders conversations - Giulia Fabini, University of Bologna

• Informality and rule of law in migration control: a dialogue between the North and the South - Valeria Ferraris, University of Turin

• ‘In between’ – looking for the place of Eastern Europe in the global South-North division - Witold Klaus, Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences

• Immigration enforcement as a police matter. Notes on “crimmigration” from a Nordic perspective - Jukka Könönen, Institute of Criminology and Legal Policy, University of Helsinki