- Notes on Contributors
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: The new vision
- 1. The foundations of sociological theories of crime
- 2. Criminalizaton: historical, legal, and criminological perspectives
- 3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures
- 4. Penal populism and epistemic crime control
- 5. Political economy, crime, and criminal justice
- 6. Delivering more with less: austerity and the politics of law and order
- 7. Crime data and criminal statistics: a critical reflection
- 8. Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
- 9. Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
- 10. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
- 11. News power, crime and media justice
- 12. Social harm and zemiology
- 13. Crime and consumer culture
- 14. Green criminology
- 15. Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
- 16. Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
- 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- 18. Rethinking comparative criminal justice
- 19. Understanding state crime
- 20. Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
- 21. Religion, crime, and violence
- 22. Character, circumstances, and the causes of crime: towards an analytical criminology
- 23. Crime and the city: urban encounters, civility, and tolerance
- 24. Prison architecture and design: perspectives from criminology and carceral geography
- 25. Interpersonal violence on the British Isles, 1200–2016
- 26. Urban criminal collaborations
- 27. Developmental and life-course criminology: innovations, impacts, and applications
- 28. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
- 29. Domestic violence
- 30. Prostitution and sex work
- 31. Drugs: consumption, addiction, and treatment
- 32. White-collar and corporate crime
- 33. Desistance from crime and implications for offender rehabilitation
- 34. Policing and the police
- 35. Crime prevention and community safety
- 36. Principles, pragmatism, and prohibition: explaining continuity and change in british drug policy
- 37. Sentencing
- 38. Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
- 39. Reconfiguring penal power
- 40. Marketizing criminal justice
- 41. Youth justice
- 42. Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
- 43. Criminological engagements
- Index
(p. 391) 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- Chapter:
- (p. 391) 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- Author(s):
Kieran McEvoy
, Ron Dudai
, and Cheryl Lawther
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780198719441.003.0018
This chapter explores the intersection between criminology and transitional justice. The chapter begins with a critical discussion on the utility of criminological scholarship from settled democracies to the exceptional circumstances of post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies. It then explores a range of debates related to the punishment of offenders in such contexts including the role of prosecutions, amnesties, the reintegration of former combatants, and the role of restorative justice. The chapter next considers the social and political construction of victimhood in transitional contexts including competing notions of the ‘idealized’ victim. The relationship between transitional justice and social control is then examined including the importance of countering denial, the relationship between deviance and memory and the particular contribution of efforts ‘from below’ to counter elites-level narratives on past abuses. The chapter concludes that a criminology of transitional justice provides the basis for revisiting some of the foundational questions on responding to crime and justice in the most challenging of settings—a sobering but intellectually rich research agenda for years to come.
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- Notes on Contributors
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction: The new vision
- 1. The foundations of sociological theories of crime
- 2. Criminalizaton: historical, legal, and criminological perspectives
- 3. Punishment and welfare: social problems and social structures
- 4. Penal populism and epistemic crime control
- 5. Political economy, crime, and criminal justice
- 6. Delivering more with less: austerity and the politics of law and order
- 7. Crime data and criminal statistics: a critical reflection
- 8. Ethnicities, racism, crime, and criminal justice
- 9. Feminist criminology: inequalities, powerlessness, and justice
- 10. Public opinion, crime, and criminal justice
- 11. News power, crime and media justice
- 12. Social harm and zemiology
- 13. Crime and consumer culture
- 14. Green criminology
- 15. Criminology, punishment, and the state in a globalized society
- 16. Border criminology and the changing nature of penal power
- 17. Criminology and transitional justice
- 18. Rethinking comparative criminal justice
- 19. Understanding state crime
- 20. Making and managing terrorism and counter-terrorism: the view from criminology
- 21. Religion, crime, and violence
- 22. Character, circumstances, and the causes of crime: towards an analytical criminology
- 23. Crime and the city: urban encounters, civility, and tolerance
- 24. Prison architecture and design: perspectives from criminology and carceral geography
- 25. Interpersonal violence on the British Isles, 1200–2016
- 26. Urban criminal collaborations
- 27. Developmental and life-course criminology: innovations, impacts, and applications
- 28. Mental health, mental disabilities, and crime
- 29. Domestic violence
- 30. Prostitution and sex work
- 31. Drugs: consumption, addiction, and treatment
- 32. White-collar and corporate crime
- 33. Desistance from crime and implications for offender rehabilitation
- 34. Policing and the police
- 35. Crime prevention and community safety
- 36. Principles, pragmatism, and prohibition: explaining continuity and change in british drug policy
- 37. Sentencing
- 38. Punishment in the community: evolution, expansion, and moderation
- 39. Reconfiguring penal power
- 40. Marketizing criminal justice
- 41. Youth justice
- 42. Restorative justice in the twenty-first century: making emotions mainstream
- 43. Criminological engagements
- Index