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How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?

Theoretical Criminology, 2023
Criminological research published in Latin America has received limited attention in global debates. Inspired by the Southern criminology project, in this article I aim to fill this gap by describing the main features of articles published in Latin America and exploring to what extent these publications reflect the core elements posited by Southern ...
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Actuarial Criminology: Meeting Current Challenges in Southern Africa

Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2006
South African prisons were overcrowded by more than sixty-three percent in 2005. Overcrowding and poor prison conditions have enormous implications for rehabilitation efforts made by the South African Department of Correctional Services. The South African White Paper on Corrections (2005) commits the Department of Correctional Services to provide needs-
Johan Prinsloo, Anastasios Ladikos
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The idea of a Southern Criminology

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 2017
Southern Criminology is a theoretical perspective that shifts the focus from the state criminal justice process to global inequalities, transnational crime, and postcolonial politics. While recognising the importance of this shift in perspective for a globalising world, this paper asks two difficult questions.
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Asian Criminology and Southern Epistemologies

2017
At present most theories about criminology have come from the English-speaking countries of the global north where most journals and universities are located. This global social organisation of knowledge has created a hegemony of thought based largely on the experiences of these ‘first world’ ‘Western’ societies. Hence criminological theories developed
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Indigenous Challenges for Southern Criminology

2018
The chapter considers three challenges that Indigenous perspectives provide for Southern criminology: the importance of understanding colonialism and the coloniality of power; the role of Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies and methodologies; and the political questions that Indigenous peoples pose for settler colonial states. The chapter argues that
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Environmental Crime in Latin America and Southern Green Criminology

2021
Latin America has been the site of extensive raw material extraction ever since its colonization by Europeans in the late 15th century. Throughout this period, large-scale resource extraction and associated practices—agroindustry, deforestation, disposal of waste and dangerous substances, industrial fishing, mining, and wildlife trafficking—have been ...
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Internationalisation of the higher education curriculum in criminology: a role for the southern criminology project

Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Contemporary issues of global significance for criminology include transnational crimes and relative inequality. To equip higher education students to become global citizens who can contribute to solutions, internationalisation of the curriculum is essential.
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Southern Criminologies, Indigenous Stories and Qualitative Research

Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2022
Ian Warren, Emma Ryan
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