This handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe. It consists of high-profile contributions that expose structural relations, global colonial and imperial histories, class oppression, and ongoing hegemonic domination that generate racial injustices and are embedded in criminalization and law enforcement. The handbook considers racist ideologies and their origins, racist institutions, procedures, and practices, and their impacts, and resistance/collective responses to racism. It includes a range of different types of chapters including conceptual/theoretical, empirical, methodological, practitioner, and activist insights. It speaks to contemporary issues and is first of its kind to address racial injustice on a global scale. It is explicitly anti-racist and gathers works of critical criminology, sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and cognate fields. The handbook pays special attention to intersectional dynamics including nexuses of racism, class, gender, and sexuality. The Handbook focusses on the settler colonial and global majority countries, their peoples and their struggles, including questions of Indigenous justice.
Introduction: Racial injustice and the global crisis of state violence.-
Explanatory frameworks for racism.- Genocide is not a metaphor: Reflections
on Gaza and the denial of the crime of genocide.- Problems of whiteness and
the criminological imagination.- Racial inequality and the judicial system in
colonial India: Resistance and abolition.- Displacement as racial injustice:
slow violence in Caribbean landscapes.- The discourse of legitimate defense
and the Black body as a strategic field of state intervention.- One tragedy
after another: structural violence, necropolitics, People of Colour and
Police Caused Deaths.- Zemiology and epistemological justice: reconstructing
the study of social harm to adequately account for race.- Colonial injustice
and decolonial imaginaries.- One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic
encounters racism in the law school.- Can Criminology Decolonise And Do We
Care?.- The problem with justice: A case study of the response to colonial
violence and possibilities for justice in Nigeria and Canada.- Incarceration
as Colonisation: Indigenous Imprisonment and Self-Determination in Australia
and Kanaky.- Red and Black, Back-to-Back.- Intersectional harms of criminal
injustice.- Stigma and penalty in the everyday lives of Black British young
women: The case of Child Q.- Religion, national identity, and racial
injustice in Southeast Asia.- Racist law enforcement.- Spitting Truth(s) to
Power: Rap Music as Evidence of Racial Injustice.- Policing the
cost-of-living crisis in England & Wales: Neoliberalism, Austerity, and
Racism.- Latina/o/x/e Residents and Racialized Social Control in the Settler
Colonial State Known as the United States of America.- Kwela Kwela- The Big
Police Van: Racialised policing in South Africa and Australia.- Prejudice
plus power The truth about racism inside the Northern Territory Police.-
Racial profiling, policing and lack of accountability.- The Breeding Ground
for Institutional Racism: Policing Others and Racial Capitalism in Europe.-
Reinvented and expanded racialised punitiveness.- Racial gaslighting in
Britain: politics and power.- Tagging, privacy intrusion and racial
injustice: The case of GPS monitoring and migrant rights in the United
Kingdom.- Race and the impact of the first crimmigration controls today.-
Racial injustice and risk frameworks in Aotearoa.- Resistance and
Counter-Resistance.- Police Violence and Insurrection: Thinking About the
2020 Uprising as an Anti-colonial and Anti-racist Abolitionist Moment.-
Abolitionist Ancestry.- Make America Great Again Again: Race,
Counter-Resistance, and Anti-Wokeness as a Political Movement toward
Hegemonic Social Control.- Forging resistance against coloniality:
Transforming racialised institutions.
Thalia Anthony is Professor at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in Sociology at University of York, UK. Kathryn Pillay is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Jason M. Williams is Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University, USA.
