Decolonizing the criminal question : : colonial legacies, contemporary problems / / edited by Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho, Anastasia Chamberlen, Máximo Sozzo.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• TeilnehmendeR: Aliverti, Ana J.,; Carvalho, Henrique,; Chamberlen, Anastasia,; Sozzo, Máximo,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Notes: This edition also issued in print: 2023.; "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.

This volume explores the uneasy relationship between crime, crime control and colonialism, foregrounding the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and pursues a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonialism on the one hand, and nationalism and globalisation on the other.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Overview -- References -- 1. Unsettling Concepts and Perspectives -- 1. Decoloniality, Abolitionism, and the Disruption of Penal Power -- Introduction -- Global State Violence and Unknowing Criminology -- Criminological Innocence -- Decolonial Knowledges -- Strategies for Decolonial Activism -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Abolition and (De)colonization: Cutting the Criminal Question's Gordian Knot -- Introduction -- A Decolonized Criminal Question? A Decolonized Criminology? -- Colonialism, Justice, and the Concept of Crime -- Criminology, its Colonial Origins, and its Relationship with the State -- 'Race' and the Invention of the Criminal -- Beyond the Criminal Question: The Need for a Decolonial Abolitionist Praxis -- References -- 3. The Weight of Empire: Crime, Violence, and Social Control in Latin America-and the Promise of Southern Criminology -- Introduction -- The Southern Criminology Project -- A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Empire -- The Latin American Crime Control Fields: A Southern Perspective -- Crime and Violence Under the Colonial Matrix of Power -- Imprisonment as a Form of Penal Excess Against Marginalized Groups -- Militarized Policing and the Upsurge of Police Brutality in Recent Times: The Covid-19 Pandemic -- State Building, State Capacity, and Links with Crime and Punishment in Latin America -- Conclusion: From the Punitive Turn to the Decolonial Turn -- References -- 4. From Genocidal Imperialist Despotism to Genocidal Neocolonial Dictatorship: Decolonizing Criminology and Criminal Justice with Indigenous Models of Democratization -- Introduction -- Decolonization as Resistance Against Colonization -- European Colonial Despotism and Resistance -- Conclusion -- References.

2. Contextualizing the Criminal Question -- 5. A Postcolonial Condition of Policing?: Exploring Policing and Social Movements in Pakistan and Nigeria -- Introduction -- A Framework for Postcolonial Policing -- Pakistan -- Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement -- Persistence of PCP in Pakistan -- Nigeria -- #EndSARS -- Persistence of PCP in Nigeria -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. Extrajudicial Punishment and the Criminal Question: The Case of 'Postcolonial' South Africa -- Introduction -- Extrajudicial Punishment and the Abdication of Liberal Law During Colonialism and Apartheid -- Extrajudicial Punishment (in Prisons and Elsewhere) Post-1994 -- Makwanyane -- Arrest and bail as extrajudicial punishment -- Civilian-Led Extrajudicial Punishment in Informal Settlements and Former Black Townships -- 'Repertoires of violence' -- Conclusion -- References -- 7. Carceral Cultures in Contemporary India -- Introduction -- A Decolonial Perspective-Introductory Remarks -- Carceral Culture and the Chaotic Everyday in Prison -- Vignettes of Carceral Spillovers -- Carceral Culture and the Politics of Disposability -- Is a Decolonial Perspective Possible? -- References -- 3. Locating Colonial Duress -- 8. 'Muslims Have No Borders, Only Horizons': A Genealogy of Border Criminality in Algeria and France, 1844 to Present -- Introduction -- Imagining and Producing the 'Borderless' Muslim -- The Administrative Internment Regime (1840s-1914) -- Afterlives of Internment -- Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? -- References -- 9. The Coloniality of Justice: Naturalized Divisions During Pre-Trial Hearings in Brazil -- Introduction -- Citizenship and the Colonial Period -- Coloniality and Citizenship -- Analysis -- Space and Place -- Boundaried Citizenship -- Whiteness as the Point of Departure -- Normalization of Black Pain and Death -- Discussion -- Temporal Dimension -- Spatial Dimension.

Subjective Dimension -- References -- 10. Contextualizing Racialized Exclusion and Criminalization in Postcolonial Israel: Policing of Israeli Ethiopian Citizens and Detention of Sudanese and Eritrean Asylum Seekers -- Introduction -- A Note on Methods and Scope -- Socio-Historical Context-An Ethnonational Settler State -- The Policing of Ethiopian Jewish Citizens -- Detention of Asylum Seekers from Sudan and Eritrea -- Connecting Racialized Exclusions -- Conclusion -- References -- 11. Coloniality and Structural Violence in the Criminalization of Black and Indigenous Populations in Brazil -- Introduction: Coloniality and the Criminalization of the Subaltern -- Brazil has a Huge Past Ahead -- The Authoritarian Republican Progress -- The Integration of the Indigenous People by Means of Punishment -- Racial Selectivity in Brazilian Policing -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Mapping Global Connections -- 12. Emancipatory Pathways or Postcolonial Pitfalls?: Navigating Global Policing Mobilities Through the Atlantic Archipelago of Cape Verde -- Introduction -- Cape Verde and Decolonizing Policing Scholarship -- Qualifying Cape Verdean Exceptionalism -- Morabeza for Transnational Policing? -- Occidental 'Policeness' and Subaltern Global Cops -- International Broker or Postcolonial Intermediary? Atlantic Policing of Global Insecurities -- 'If They Build It, Will They Come?' An International Police Academy for Cape Verde -- Conclusion -- References -- 13. 'Nothing is Lost, Everything is … Transferred': Transnational Institutionalization and Ideological Legitimation of Torture as a Neocolonial State Crime -- Introduction -- The Algerian 'War of Decolonization' (1954-1962) -- The Argentine Dirty War (1976-1983) -- Neocolonialism as the Rationale Behind the Transnational Institutionalization and Ideological Legitimation of Torture -- Conclusion -- References.

14. The Legacy of Colonial Patriarchy in the Current Administration of the Malaysian Death Penalty: The Hyper-Sentencing of Foreign National Women to Death for Drug Trafficking -- Introduction -- Scholarship on Capital Punishment and Colonization -- An Overview of the Current Scope and Application of the Malaysian Death Penalty -- The Double Colonial Legacy: Two Converging Histories -- The Research Problem: The Death Penalty for Drug Trafficking as a Modern Manifestation of Colonial Patriarchy and Penality -- The hyper-sentencing of foreign national women for drug trafficking -- 'Securitization' in response to the 'foreign threat' of drug trafficking -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Moving Forward: New Methods and Approaches -- 15. Criminal Questions, Colonial Hinterlands, Personal Experience: A Symptomatic Reading -- Introduction -- Methodological Approach-Symptomatic Reading -- Cairo's Jamaican Excursions and Versions -- Imperializing Merton? -- Rafan's Criminal Justice Rejections and Recreations -- The postcolony -- Warren: Transnational Whiteness Refusing to be Seen -- 'Don't get me white'? racial routes in and out of Zimbabwe, London, and Essex -- Accents of colonial hierarchy, evidence of whiteness -- Conclusions: Colonial Violence, White Innocence, Criminal Questions -- Making connections: coloniality and criminology -- References -- 16. Ayllu and Mestizaje: A Decolonial Feminist View of Women's Imprisonment in Peru -- Introduction -- The Modern-Colonial-Patriarchal Structure -- Race, Gender, and Imprisonment: The Modern-Colonial-Patriarchal Penitentiary -- Ayllu and Mestizaje: Women in Contemporary Prisons in Lima, Peru -- Ayllu: A Communitarian Organizational System within Santa Monica -- Mestizas and Mestizaje: About the 'Race'-Ethnic-Cultural Dimension in Prison -- Conclusion: Final Reflections -- References.

17. An Alternative Spotlight: Colonial Legacies, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, and the Enigma of Healing -- Introduction -- The therapeutic jurisprudence approach -- Colonial Legacies: A Case Study of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Applied -- Cultural tokenism -- Assimilation through subjugation -- Colonial consciousness -- The Enigma of Healing -- Conclusion -- References -- 18. In Our Experience: Recognizing and Challenging Cognitive Imperialism -- Introduction: Colonization and Cognitive Imperialism -- Experiencing criminal justice academe: the data -- Recognizing and Reflecting on Cognitive Imperialism -- Reorienting and Responding to Cognitive Imperialism -- Recover and Reform: Seeking Constructive Ways Forward -- Conclusion -- References -- Conclusion: Teasing Out the Criminal Question, Building a Decolonizing Horizon -- Overview -- Problematizing and Dismantling Dynamics of Hierarchization, Subordination, and Dependency in Knowledge Production and Circulation -- Continuities, Discontinues, Permutations, and Erasures in the Colonial Matrix of the Criminal Question -- Methodological Approaches: Reflexivity, Narratives of Resistance and Enduring Struggles -- Politics and Ethics -- References -- Index.