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Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices

Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices

Author: Pablo Ciocchini; George Radics
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138625631

Published In: September 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780367777470

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This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people’s perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or activities. This book aims to address the gap between criminal law in theory and practice in the Global South by assembling 11 chapters from established and emerging scholars from various underrepresented regions of the world.

Drawing on research from Singapore, the Philippines, Peru, Indonesia, India, the Dominican Republic, Burma, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Argentina, this book explores a range of issues that straddle the line between social deviance and legal crimes in such societies, including extramarital affairs, gender-based violence, gambling, LGBT issues, and corruption. Issues of inclusivity versus exclusivity, modernity versus tradition, globalization of capital versus cultural revivalism are explored. The contributions critically analyze the role politics and institutions play in shaping these issues. There is an urgent need for empirical studies and new theoretical approaches that can capture the complexity of crime phenomena that occur in the Global South. This book will provide essential material to facilitate the development of new approaches more suitable to understanding the social phenomena related to crime in these societies.

This book will make an important contribution in the development of Southern criminology. It will be of interest to students and researchers of criminology and sociology engaged in studies of sentencing and punishment, theories of crime, law and practice, and postcolonialism.

Introduction

Reinterpreting Chaos as Diversity: An Alternative Legal Approach from the Global South

Pablo Ciocchini

Cultural Dynamics

Criminalizing Adultery in Colonial India: Constructing the Wife vs. the Other in Islamic Family Law

Anisur Rahman

"First World Problems" in the "Third World"? LGBT Rights in Singapore

George Radics

Privacy in Public Spaces: The Transformative Potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India

Danish Sheikh

Gambling with Criminal Law: The Legal Paradox of "Jogo do Bicho" (Animal Lottery) Criminalization in Brazil

João Araújo Monteiro Neto and Nestor Eduardo Araruna Santiago