ABSTRACT
The Southernising of criminology is one step in the journey toward the development of a robust transnational criminology that invents methods and concepts which bridge global divides and enhance the democratisation of knowledge, a journey toward cognitive justice. Asia provides some lessons regarding the challenges facing those seeking a more globally-oriented criminology from the Global South. Criminology has become institutionalised in the United States to an extent not comparable anywhere else in the world, despite many other countries in the Global North having introduced criminology as a distinct discipline for undergraduate and post-graduate study during the latter part of the twentieth century. J. Liu observes that the 'international community' of criminologists mostly comprises scholars from the Global North and mostly involves dialogue across the North Atlantic. The Northern dominance of global criminology is attested to in the translation of Northern research for adoption in courses elsewhere in the world.
