Decolonising State Crime and Transitional Justice

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

Decolonial, counter-colonial and Southern views aim to reshape the field of criminology, from its premises and theoretical frameworks to its research foci and agendas. One of its features is to shed light on the distinctive patterns, trends and implications of how crime is experienced in the global South. However, even within this critical framework, studies continue to focus on street crime, prisons and trends in punishment. Less attention has been paid to state crime and transitional justice from a decolonial perspective. To fill this gap, this broad pre-arranged panel proposes to address the broad range of topics on state crimes, resistance to state crimes and dealing with the consequences of the state crimes that occur in the global South, that directly/indirectly affect the Global South, or that occur anywhere but can be assessed through a decolonial/southern lens.

Subtopic

• Topic 5: Social Control and Criminal Justice / Transitional Justice (Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice WG)

Chairs

• Valeria E Vegh Weis, Konstanz University

• Stephan Parmentier, KU Leuven

Individual Presentations

• Should We Pay ‘Wages for Victims’?: Victim Participation as Labour in Domestic and International Criminal Justice - Leila Ullrich, Leila.Ullrich@crim.ox.ac.uk

• The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile - Valeria E Vegh Weis, Konstanz University

• Transitioning where? The ambivalent post-dictatorship path of the Chilean police - Maria Jesus Valenzuela, University of Oxford

• Voices from diverse fields: towards transitional justice ‘from below’ - Mariana Lara Palacios, KULeuven; James Henry John Rischbieth, KU Leuven