Authors-meet-critics session: 'Brandariz, Fabini, Fernández-Bessa and Ferraris (eds) (2025) Border Criminologies from The Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality'

Session Submission Type: Author meets critics

Abstract

This session is aimed at debating the recently published edited collection 'Brandariz J A, Fabini G, Fernández-Bessa C and Ferraris V (eds) (2025) Border Criminologies from The Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality'. This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and
crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.
It builds not only on global criminological debates but also on southern criminological concerns, thereby enriching border criminology conversations by expanding the epistemological boundaries of these academic debates. This collection asks a variety of questions. What is the part being played by detention practices at the national level and how is it changing over time? To what extent are deportation policies playing a significant role in the coercive management of unwanted noncitizens? Is the criminal justice system, and more precisely the prison system crucially supplementing the immigration enforcement apparatus in handling undocumented noncitizen groups? Should that be the case, is the increasing criminalization of noncitizens leading to the consolidation of a dual criminal justice system?

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Crime Control and the Immigration System (Immigration, Crime and Citizenship WG)

Critics

• Giuseppe Campesi, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’

• Katja Franko, University of Oslo

• Maximo Sozzo, Universidad de A Coruña / Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Book Authorss

• Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna

• Giulia Fabini, University of Bologna

• Cristina Fernandez Bessa, University of A Coruna

• Valeria Ferraris, University of Turin