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- Appeals to students and scholars of criminology and socio-legal studies with an interest in colonial and postcolonial societies
- Provides writing from two experienced scholars with global appeal
- Fills a significant gap in contemporary criminology and related literature.
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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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 colonisationis a thing of the past and provides lessons for the Global North.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Harry Blagg is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples and Criminal Justice at The University of Western Australia. He has over twenty years of experience conducting research with Aboriginal people across Australia on justice related issues. He has developed a specific focus on remote communities – particularly in the Kimberly Region of WA and the Northern Territory – and has been involved in research, consultancy and policy development around community justice, night patrols, men and women’s safe places, youth justice and family violence.
Thalia Anthony is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her expertise is in the areas of criminal law and procedure, and Indigenous people and the law, with a particular specialisation in discrimination in the criminal justice system, Indigenous community justice mechanisms and the lived experience of Indigenous women in prisons. She has developednew understandings of the role of criminalisation in governing Indigenous communities. Her research is informed by fieldwork in Indigenous communities and partnerships with Indigenous organisations in Australia and overseas.
Thalia Anthony is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Her expertise is in the areas of criminal law and procedure, and Indigenous people and the law, with a particular specialisation in discrimination in the criminal justice system, Indigenous community justice mechanisms and the lived experience of Indigenous women in prisons. She has developednew understandings of the role of criminalisation in governing Indigenous communities. Her research is informed by fieldwork in Indigenous communities and partnerships with Indigenous organisations in Australia and overseas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonising Criminology
Book Subtitle: Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World
Authors: Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53247-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53246-6Published: 09 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53247-3Published: 23 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 399
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Criminal Justice, Policing, Human Rights and Crime, Research Methods in Criminology, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice