Description
CRIMINOLOGY AND DECOLONIALITY: RACIST CRIMINOLOGY AND THOUGHT
Book Summary
This work proposes a critical dialogue between Criminology and decolonial perspectives, analyzing how racism has shaped the penal system and criminological thought. The author, Evandro Piza Duarte, examines the colonization of knowledge in the Brazilian penal sciences, denouncing the historical use of race as a criminogenic factor. Through an approach from the Global South, the book questions transnational intellectual elites and offers a renewed look at drug policy and the racialization of justice in Brazil. An essential read to understand the structural violence of the penal system from a critical and decolonial perspective.
What is it about?
The book articulates texts that seek to build bridges between Critical Criminology and theories that denounce the racist violence of the penal system. It focuses on the construction of a Criminology of the South, conceived from the South and based on local problems analyzed with a critical eye toward global intellectual elites. The author explores the colonization of Brazilian thought in the field of penal sciences, uncovering the historical relationship that has used race as a criminogenic factor. Confronting the debate between the passive reception of foreign theories and local creative appropriation, Piza Duarte highlights the colonial nature of criminological knowledge. Finally, it provides a detailed analysis of drug policy and how it has contributed to the racialization of the justice system in Brazil since the 1990s.
Main themes
- Critique of structural racism in the penal system and traditional criminology.
- Construction of a Criminology of the South and decolonial thought.
- Colonization of knowledge in Brazilian penal sciences.
- Historical use of race as a criminogenic factor.
- Racialization of the justice system and drug policy in Brazil.
Who is it recommended for?
This book is recommended for researchers, academics, and students of Criminology, Law, Social Sciences, and Decolonial Studies. It is also of great interest to justice system professionals, activists, and all those committed to the critical analysis of racial inequalities and institutional violence.
What this book contributes
- A critical and decolonial perspective to understand racism in the penal system.
- An in-depth analysis of the relationship between criminology and the colonization of knowledge.
- Conceptual tools to understand the racialization of justice in Brazil.
- A view from the Global South that challenges hegemonic criminological narratives.
- A detailed study of drug policy as a mechanism of racial control.
Technical specifications
- Author: PIZA DUARTE, EVANDRO
- Publisher: J.M.BOSCH
- Language: Spanish
- Collection: CRIMINOLOGY CRIMINAL LAW AND POLITICS CR
- Publication date: January 2025
- Number of pages: 370
- Weight: 600 g
Editorial review
This is a rigorous and necessary work that introduces the decolonial debate into the field of criminology, an area where Eurocentric perspectives have traditionally predominated. The author succeeds in articulating theory and concrete analysis, offering keys to understanding the dynamics of power and racialization in the Brazilian penal system, with implications that transcend the local. It is a book of great value for those seeking critical tools that question the foundations of established criminological knowledge.