From the Publisher
“The chapters in this volume provide critical insights into issues of pressing global concern, turning them on their head and challenging us to rethink – and retheorize – how law shapes, controls, and sometimes criminalizes, diversity. Radics and Ciocchini have deftly curated the contributions of new and established scholars in a work that amply illustrates why scholarship from the global South matters in building knowledge and shaping theory.” (Dee Smythe, Professor and Director of the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town, South Africa)
“Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South centers scholarly attention on the experiences of populations who are multiply marginalized – by being minorities in their respective societies and by being situated in the Global South. The editors and authors not only show us how violence manifests in the Global South but also what we can learn from the diverse ways in which these populations respond to oppressive conditions and engage with the law.” (Lynette J. Chua, Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and President of the Asian Law & Society Association)
“Criminal Legalities’ originality lies in the Southern perspective it adopts to document the specific forms that law and the criminal justice system take when they target disadvantaged groups in nations that are politically and culturally marginalized themselves.” (Roberto Gargarella, Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher at National Research Center, Argentina)
“This highly impressive collection brings together a remarkable range of case studies from across the Global South, together demonstrating the severity and intensity of law’s violence. Yet in those cases there is also an intensity of resistance to repression. Where there is state violence, there is resistance. And this collection offers a uniquely diverse range of perspectives that is indispensable to scholars of criminology who claim to take the Global South seriously.” (David Whyte, Professor of Climate Justice and Director of the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London)