Handbook on Border Criminology
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Edited by Mary Bosworth, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK, Katja Franko, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, Maggy Lee, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR and Rimple Mehta, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia<i>‘The </i>Handbook on Border Criminology<> offers an essential exploration of the complex intersections of race, gender, and justice in border enforcement. With rich theoretical foundations and critical case studies, this comprehensive work challenges conventional perspectives on immigration, criminalization, and human rights, making it indispensable to scholars and activists alike.’
- Maartje van der Woude, Leiden University, the Netherlands,
<i>‘Braiding pathbreaking and poignant conversations between border criminology and the social sciences, the </i>Handbook on Border Criminology<i> addresses one of the most urgent challenges of our times. A creative, clarifying, compelling and constructive brief to end carceral cultures within and across borders, it is breathtakingly powerful. A must read.’</i>
- Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India,
<i>‘This volume makes an extraordinary contribution to the dynamic and vibrant field of border criminologies. Through a dialogue between the Global North and Global South, the Handbook offers epistemological, theoretical and methodological tools, including feminist, decolonial and affective turn perspectives, to critically and comparatively analyse the governance of multi-sited and multi-scale borders. And at the same time conveying not only the ethical and political commitment of the authors but raising new questions and identifying possible responses to border injustice.’</i>
- Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico,
‘This timely book exposes the raw edges of border criminology. An impressive range of scholarly voices and disciplines excavate the most pressing questions of our day around bordered penality and the interconnection of crime control and migration. The Handbook on Border Criminology is a must-read for anyone seeking insight into the interplay of power and coercion through border practices on a global scale.’
- Juliet P. Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School, US,
<i>‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border criminology, through a deep engagement with different types of borders across different regions globally.’</i>
- Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, India,