• THE REVIVAL OF COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD: LOCAL VARIANCES AND INDIGENOUS OVER‐REPRESENTATION


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    • ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]In this article, I first examine the viability of comparative criminological research in a globalised world. Further, I test the validity of some global explanatory models against the local situation in countries that appear to resist the dominant trend, such as the Netherlands and Canada. I then zoom in even further to the intra‐national differences in some federal nations, such as Canada and Australia, where this situation is often linked to the over representation of Indigenous people and the consequences of colonialism. Finally, I discuss the future of comparative criminological rese ... Continue Reading

         

      CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTERINTRODUCTIONI argued in a previous article (Tubex 2013), that comparative criminology is a rather young discipline, as crime and justice were not hot topics in the optimistic, generous and positive decades following the Second World War. However, the global economic crisis of the seventies, the subsequent decline of belief in the penal welfare state, and the increase in crime rates and prison populations dramatically changed this picture. Criminologists started to look across borders in an attempt to understand the causes of increasing prison populations. David Garland’s pioneeri ... Continue Reading