Introduction

The introductory chapter establishes the setting for the remainder of the book. It includes a brief examination of land grabbing in Afghanistan, as well as its implications for transitional justice and critical criminology. It also discusses why the missing link between transitional justice and criminology is critical, and how an empirical case study of land grabbing in Afghanistan can establish the inevitability of this link. The introduction also offers a description of the methodology, which involves desk research and two stages of fieldwork in Afghanistan. It wraps up by sketching out the remainder of the book’s structure.