This book undertakes an exploratory exercise in decolonizing criminology through engaging postcolonial and postdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. Through its historical and political analysis and place-based case studies, it challenges criminological inquiry by installing colonial structures of power at the centre of the contemporary criminological debate. This work unseats the Western nation-state as the singular point of departure for comparative criminological and socio-legal research. Decolonising Criminology argues that postcolonial and postdisciplinary critique can open up new pathways for criminological investigation. It builds on recent debates in criminology from outside of the Anglosphere. The authors deploy a number of heuristic devices, perspectives and theories generally ignored by criminologists of the Global North and engage perspectives concerned with articulating new decolonised epistemologies of the Global South. This book disputes the view that colonisation is a thing of the past and provides lessons for the Global North.
Author(s): Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
Series: Critical Criminological Perspectives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 413
Tags: Ethnicity, Class, Gender And Crime
Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Turning Criminology Upside Down (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 1-29
Postcolonial Criminology: “The Past Isn’t Over…” (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 31-54
“Who Speaks for Place?” (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 55-78
Decolonising Criminology Methodologies (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 79-96
Borders Are Strange Places: Borders of the State to Boundaries of the Prison (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 97-132
Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice? (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 133-152
Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power? (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 153-176
Justice in the Shadow of the Camp (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 177-201
Carceral Feminism: Saving Indigenous Women from Indigenous Men (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 203-244
Hybrid Justice (i): Indigenous Sentencing and Justice Planning (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 245-278
Hybrid Justice (ii): Night Patrols and Place-Based Sovereignty (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 279-318
Conclusions: State of Exception and Bare Life in Criminology and Criminal “Justice” (Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony)....Pages 319-329
Back Matter ....Pages 331-399
