Decolonizing the Criminal Question

Ana Aliverti is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, University of Warwick. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxford, 2012), an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction, Oxford, 2008), an MA in Sociology of Law (IISL, 2005) and a BA in Law (Honours, Buenos Aires, 2002). Her research explores questions of national identity and belonging in criminal justice, and of law, sovereignty and globalisation. She has led extensive empirical work in the UK's criminal justice and immigration systems. She is the author of Crimes of Mobility (Routledge, 2013) and Policing the Borders Within (OUP, 2021). She was co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Best Book Prize for 2014, and has received the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) (2015), the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law (2017), and the British Journal of Criminology's Radzinowicz Prize. She is co-Director of the Criminal Justice Centre at Warwick and the Associate Director of Border Criminologies. Henrique Carvalho's research interests lie in the areas of criminal law, criminalisation and punishment, and legal, social, political and cultural theory. He joined the University of Warwick in September 2015, having previously worked as a Lecturer in Law at City, University of London, a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the London School of Economics. Anastasia Chamberlen's research interests lie in the areas of theoretical criminology, the sociology of punishment and prisons, feminist theory and theoretical debates in the study of emotions, embodiment and the arts in criminal justice. Having previously worked as a lecturer in criminology at Birkbeck, University of London, she joined Warwick's Sociology Department in 2016 as Associate Professor of Sociology. Over the last 25 years Máximo Sozzo has completed research in different areas of contemporary criminology, always with a focus on Latin America and Argentina. He is now working on prisons and power, historical transformations of punishment, the mechanisms of sentencing without trial, and the travels of ideas about the criminal question across the Global North and South.

Mark Brown: Foreword
Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho, Anastasia Chamberlen, and Máximo Sozzo: Introduction
Part 1: Unsettling Concepts and Perspectives
1: Chris Cunneen: Decoloniality, Abolitionism, and the Disruption of Penal Power
2: John Moore: Abolition and (De)colonization: Cutting the Criminal Questions Gordian Knot
3: Manuel Iturralde: The Weight of Empire: Crime, Violence, and Social Control in Latin America - and the promise of Southern Criminology
4: Biko Agozino: From Genocidal Imperialist Despotism to Genocidal Neocolonial Dictatorship: Decolonizing criminology and criminal justice with indigenous models of democratisation
Part 2: Contextualizing the Criminal Question
5: Zoha Waseem: The Postcolonial Condition of Policing? Exploring Policing and Social Movements in Pakistan and Nigeria
6: Gail Super: Extrajudicial Punishment and the Criminal Question: The case of postcolonial South Africa
7: Mahuya Bandyopadhyay: Carceral Cultures in Contemporary India
Part 3: Locating Colonial Duress
8: Sarah Ghabrial: "Muslims have no borders, only horizons": A genealogy of border criminality in Algeria and France 1844 to present
9: Omar Phoenix Khan: The Coloniality of Justice: Naturalised divisions during pre-trial hearings in Brazil
10: Maayan Ravid: Contextualizing Racialized Exclusion in Criminalization in Postcolonial Israel: Policing of Israeli Ethiopian Citizens and Detention of Sudanese and Eritrean Asylum Seekers
11: Hugo Leonardo Rodrigues Santos: Coloniality and Structural Violence in the Criminalization of Black and Indigenous Populations in Brazil
Part 4: Mapping Global Connections
12: Conor O'Reilly: Emancipatory Pathways or Postcolonial Pitfalls? Navigating global policing mobilities through the atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde
13: Melanie Collard: "Nothing is Lost, Everything is ... Transferred": Transnational institutionalization and ideological legitimation of torture as a postcolonial state crime
14: Lucy Harry: The Legacy of Colonial Patriarchy in the Current Administration of the Malaysian Death Penalty: The hyper-sentencing of foreign national women to death for drug trafficking
Part 5: Moving Forward: New Methods and Approaches
15: Rod Earle, Alpa Parmar, and Coretta Phillips: Criminal Questions, Colonial Hinterlands, Personal Experience: A symptomatic reading
16: Lucia Bracco Bruce: Ayllu and Mestizaje: A decolonial feminist view of women's imprisonment in Peru
17: Amanda Wilson: An Alternative Spotlight: Colonial legacies, therapeutic jurisprudence and the enigma of healing
18: Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Ahmed Ajil: In Our Experience: Recognizing and challenging cognitive imperialism
Ana Aliverti, Henrique Carvalho, Anastasia Chamberlen, and Máximo Sozzo: Conclusion: Teasing Out the Criminal Question, Building a Decolonizing Horizon