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Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices

Edited by: Pablo Ciocchini, George Radics

ISBN13: 9781138625631
Published: September 2019
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £120.00
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9780367777470



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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.

Subjects:
Other Jurisdictions , Asia
Contents:
Introduction
Reinterpreting Chaos as Diversity: An Alternative Legal Approach from the Global South
Pablo Ciocchini
Cultural Dynamics
Criminalizing Adultery in Colonial India: Constructing the Wife vs. the Other in Islamic Family Law
Anisur Rahman
"First World Problems" in the "Third World"? LGBT Rights in Singapore
George Radics
Privacy in Public Spaces: The Transformative Potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India
Danish Sheikh
Gambling with Criminal Law: The Legal Paradox of "Jogo do Bicho" (Animal Lottery) Criminalization in Brazil
João Araújo Monteiro Neto and Nestor Eduardo Araruna Santiago
Political Tensions
(Cr)immigration in the Dominican Republic?
Decolonizing the Human Rights of Vulnerable Haitian Migrants
Carolina Yoko Furusho
Cosmologies of Federal Criminal Procedural Reform: Democratizing and Humanizing Criminal Justice in Argentina
Julieta Mira
Of Punishment, Protest, and Press Conferences: Contentious Politics Amidst Despotic Decision in Contemporary Burmese courtrooms
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Institutional Practices
The Politics of Judicial Actors in the Philippines "War on Drugs"
Pablo Ciocchini
Arresting a Due Process Revolution: The Reform of Indonesia’s Code of Criminal Procedure and the Persistence of History
Jayson Lamchek
Sacrificing Justice for Efficiency?
Examining Premature Dismissal Rates in Peruvian Corruption Cases
Wilson Hernández
Sexual Crimes and Transitional Justice before Courts in Brazil: Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity
Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer and Claudia Paiva Carvalho
Conclusion
Seeking Commonalities from Across the South
George B. Radics