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Decolonising Criminology

Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Harry Blagg

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

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  2. Thalia Anthony

    1. Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Turning Criminology Upside Down

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 1-29

  3. Postcolonial Criminology: “The Past Isn’t Over…”

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 31-54

  4. “Who Speaks for Place?”

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 55-78

  5. Decolonising Criminology Methodologies

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 79-96

  6. Borders Are Strange Places: Borders of the State to Boundaries of the Prison

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 97-132

  7. Restorative Justice or Indigenous Justice?

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 133-152

  8. Disciplinary Power or Colonial Power?

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 153-176

  9. Justice in the Shadow of the Camp

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 177-201

  10. Carceral Feminism: Saving Indigenous Women from Indigenous Men

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 203-244

  11. Hybrid Justice (i): Indigenous Sentencing and Justice Planning

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 245-278

  12. Hybrid Justice (ii): Night Patrols and Place-Based Sovereignty

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 279-318

  13. Conclusions: State of Exception and Bare Life in Criminology and Criminal “Justice”

    • Harry Blagg, Thalia Anthony
    Pages 319-329

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 331-399
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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Harry Blagg

  • Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Thalia Anthony

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.

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