#11598. Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Southern Criminologies: Methods, Theories and Indigenous Issues”

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Abstract:
The British Journal of Criminology published an article entitled “Southern Criminology.” The principal aim of this article, which subsequently appeared as the lead article in Volume 56, Issue 1, was to set forth an approach that could help to “decolonize and democratize the toolbox of available criminological concepts, theories, and methods” (Carrington et al. 2016). They further described “southern criminology” as a tool to “elucidate the power relations embedded in the hierarchical production of criminological knowledge”. c. The common denominator of both dynamics, as Carrington and her co-authors maintained, was the (neocolonial) portrayal of Northern societies as leaders in the “development” of the world. Describing this phenomenon as a form of “myopia,” Carrington and colleagues (2016) argued that the uneven distribution of epistemological power between the Global North and the Global South has engendered biased theories that fail to acknowledge: the role of (neo)colonialism in the analysis of the incidence of—and issues relating to—crime and violence; the inadequacy of importing Northern theory into Southern societies caused by failing to acknowledge the geopolitical specificity of all social theories.
Keywords:
Southern Criminology; criminological; biased theories; geopolitical

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