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Punishment at the Margins: Groundwork for a Revisited Sociology of Punishment

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The enterprise of the sociology of punishment rests on a reassessment of modern social theory and an appraisal of changes in patterns of crime and punishment in recent years. The emergence of a Southern criminology indicates, though, the need for repositioning knowledge production in the field of crime and crime control to include broader perspectives and theoretically accommodate new realities outside mainstream academic production. The same effort needs to address the specificity of punishment and imprisonment in this broader context. The aim of the present argument resides, thus, in developing new underpinnings for the sociology of punishment, in which the historical roots of the so-called peripheral spaces are taken seriously in their complexity and distinctiveness.

I would like to thank Russell Hogg, Kerry Carrington and Luiza Bossi for comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. I would also like to thank the QUT Crime and Justice Research Centre for the generous provision of support.

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    For most of the text, however, national contexts have been referred in diverse terminologies interchangeably as in peripheral, marginal, developing or emerging economies or countries.

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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  3. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    John Scott

  4. National University of Litoral Santa Fe, Santa Fe, Argentina

    Máximo Sozzo

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Fonseca, D.S. (2018). Punishment at the Margins: Groundwork for a Revisited Sociology of Punishment. In: Carrington, K., Hogg, R., Scott, J., Sozzo, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_34

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