ABSTRACT
This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people’s perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or activities. This book aims to address the gap between criminal law in theory and practice in the Global South by assembling 11 chapters from established and emerging scholars from various underrepresented regions of the world.
Drawing on research from Singapore, the Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, India, the Dominican Republic, Burma, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Argentina, this book explores a range of issues that straddle the line between social deviance and legal crimes in such societies, including extramarital affairs, gender-based violence, gambling, LGBT issues, and corruption. Issues of inclusivity versus exclusivity, modernity versus tradition, globalization of capital versus cultural revivalism are explored. The contributions critically analyze the role politics and institutions play in shaping these issues. There is an urgent need for empirical studies and new theoretical approaches that can capture the complexity of crime phenomena that occur in the Global South. This book will provide essential material to facilitate the development of new approaches more suitable to understanding the social phenomena related to crime in these societies.
This book will make an important contribution in the development of Southern criminology. It will be of interest to students and researchers of criminology and sociology engaged in studies of sentencing and punishment, theories of crime, law and practice, and postcolonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |13 pages
Introduction
chapter |11 pages
Reinterpreting chaos as diversity
part I|71 pages
Cultural dynamics
chapter Chapter 1|16 pages
Criminalizing adultery in colonial India
chapter Chapter 3|16 pages
Privacy in public spaces
chapter Chapter 4|17 pages
Gambling with criminal law
part II|56 pages
Political tensions
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
(Cr)immigration in the Dominican Republic? Decolonizing the human rights of vulnerable Haitian migrants
chapter Chapter 6|19 pages
Cosmologies of federal criminal procedural reform
chapter Chapter 7|19 pages
Of punishment, protest, and press conferences
part III|71 pages
Institutional practices
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Arresting a due process revolution
chapter Chapter 10|16 pages
Sacrificing justice for efficiency?
chapter Chapter 11|16 pages
Sexual crimes and transitional justice before courts in Brazil
part |16 pages
Conclusion