Challenging Criminological Universality: Perspectives on Alternative Forms of Justice in the Global South

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

Conversations on alternative forms of justice have been overwhelmingly driven by knowledge produced in the Global North. This session aims to bring together academic experts specialised in restorative, therapeutic, generative, and transitional justice processes whose works bring the global periphery to the forefront of criminological knowledge production and theorising. Papers covering diverse jurisdictions such as Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and Island communities in Greece will critically engage with the current gaps in Northern literature and contemplate the unique insights brought by their research in relation to key concerns within alternative justice: punishment, rehabilitation, human rights and universality. Part of a wider effort to ‘southernise’ criminology, this panel is also the beginning of a dialogue between different forms of alternative justice thought that so far have largely developed independently of each other.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Criminal Justice Policy (Crime, Science and Politics WG )

Chair

• Kerry Carrington, University of Sunshine Coast

Individual Presentations

• Between Penal Populism and Human Rights Discourses: The Development of Drug Treatment Courts in Chile - Iulia Cristiana Vatau, University of Oxford

• Retributive and Restorative Approaches to Drug Offending in Indonesia - Daniel Cullen, University of Oxford

• Doing Justice Differently in a Mountain Region of Contemporary Crete, Greece - Leah Koumentaki, Keele University