Southern Criminology

Taylor & Francis

Southern CriminologyAuthor(s): Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg, John Scott, Mximo Sozzo, Reece Walters\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138721302, 978-1138721302\nSynopsis\nCriminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias.\n\nThis book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head. It draws on a range of case studies to illustrate this point: tracing criminologys long fascination with dangerous masculinities back to Lombrosos theory of atavism, itself based on an orientalist interpretation of men of colour from the Global South; uncovering criminologys colonial legacy, perhaps best exemplified by the over-representation of Indigenous peoples i.