Abstract
This chapter argues for the importance of a postcolonial perspective in criminology. It is a perspective that has the potential to offer new theoretical insights, and to expand the discipline in an engaged and reflexive endeavor that is cognisant of cultural and historical difference.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law
Date of this Version
January 2011
Recommended Citation
Chris Cunneen, "Postcolonial Perspectives for Criminology" (January 2011). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2011. Working Paper 6.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps11/art6
Comments
This chapter is forthcoming in Bosworth M. and Hoyle C. (eds) What is Criminology OUP: Oxford. This paper may also be referenced as [2011] UNSWLRS 6.