Southern Criminology by Kerry Carrington

Southern Criminology by Kerry Carrington

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This book offers an overview of the metropolitan biases of criminological theory that have produced hegemony of knowledge in the field and makes the case for the global south - a largely overlooked field for knowledge production in criminology.

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Southern Criminology by Kerry Carrington

This book offers an overview of the metropolitan biases of criminological theory that have produced hegemony of knowledge in the field and makes the case for the global south - a largely overlooked field for knowledge production in criminology.

"A thought provoking book! Written by the leaders of Southern Criminology, it is a most important contribution that addresses the issue of North-South imbalance in the production of criminological knowledgeThe book powerfully challenges the assumed universality of dominant criminology theories and explains how contemporary criminology knowledge has been highly limited by Western experiences."

- Professor Jianhong Liu, Department of Sociology, University of Macau

"Southern Criminology takes the reader on a journey of critical imagination to offer a future landscape for the discipline of criminology. This journey is challenging and profound. The authors chart a route from the discipline's past to the promise of a dawn for its future that anyone willing to travel with them will find intellectually valuable and hugely rewarding. Take a risk. Take this journey. You will not be disappointed."

- Professor Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool and Editor in Chief of the British Journal of Criminology

"For most of its existence, criminology has been moulded by the intellectual perspectives and ideological reflexes of the global North—a region that contains only a fraction of the world’s population and only a fraction of its experience of violence and social harm. Southern Criminology promises to be a foundational document in a growing movement to bring the rest of the world into the centre of criminological dialogue and action."

- Professor Elliott Currie, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California Irvine

"This book is an inspiring project of retrieval of wisdom bubbling up from marginality and domination in global structures of social relations. The ideas retrieved bridge global divides rather than essentialize ‘North’ or ‘South’. Dialogue across diverse divides helps build new intercultural and interscalar understandings in a pathbreaking volume."

- Professor John Braithwaite, RegNet, ANU

"This book presents a convincing argument about the need to develop a Southern Criminology to overcome the monopolization of criminology by the Northern part of the world. It leaves us well informed on important issues, especially on the richness and pertinence of incorporating Southern perspectives into the Global understanding of crime and violence. Far from trying to discredit the knowledge produced by Northern Criminology, this book proves a simple fact: that we can learn from each other, and that knowledge can travel from Global South to North, South to South, East to West and vice versa."

- Professor Elena Azaola, Mexican Criminologist, del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, CIESAS

Kerry Carrington is the Head of the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Russell Hogg is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

John Scott is a Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Máximo Sozzo is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the Natural University of Litoral, Argentina. He is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Reece Walters is a Professor in the School of Justice and Director of the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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ISBN 13 9781138721302
ISBN 10 1138721301
Title Southern Criminology
Author Kerry Carrington
Series New Directions In Critical Criminology
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2018-10-15
Number of pages 214
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.