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Contribution to Book
Southernising Arab Criminology: A Dialogical Approach
Southernising Criminology Challenges, Horizons and Praxis (2024)
  • Anwar Ouassini, Delaware State University
  • Nabil Ouassini, Prairie View A&M University
Abstract
In the dominance of Northern criminology, the experiences and knowledge of and from the Arab world have long lingered in the periphery. The Global North possesses a hegemony over the discipline with presupposed universal theories and laws that often ignore the contributions and diversity of the Global South. In a region of 22 nations and around 450 million citizens, traditional Northern academia has reduced Arab criminology to lawlessness, political violence, barbarism, instability, and religious totalitarianism. The project of Southernizing criminology presents an opportunity for cognitive justice that empowers and situates Arab criminology and other regions of the Global South in a position to participate in the democratization of criminological knowledge. This chapter will contend that Arab criminology is a necessary component of Southernizing criminology, requiring a dialogical relationship centered on confronting the prevalence of Orientalism and Islamophobia in Northern criminology.
Keywords
  • Arab criminology,
  • Southern criminology,
  • Global South
Publication Date
June 2, 2024
Editor
Luiz Dal Santo, Carla Andrea SepĂșlveda Penna
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group
Citation Information
Anwar Ouassini and Nabil Ouassini. "Southernising Arab Criminology: A Dialogical Approach" Southernising Criminology Challenges, Horizons and Praxis (2024)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nabil-ouassini/25/