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Criminology, Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Global South

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It may be that Southern criminology should not be overly criminological if it is to advance global justice. It may be that transitional justice should not be overly focused on transition if it is to advance peace with justice, but rather more focused on the longue durée. There is much to learn from the way different locales across the global South approach the challenges of building societies with falling rather than rising levels of violence. This essay considers comparative lessons from Melanesia. Pluralism, restorative justice, non-domination and responsiveness in peacebuilding are advanced as ideals for a Southern criminology.

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    It is often argued with some justification that it was the Irish colonial model of policing more than the London model that was exported across the British Empire. This was an even more militarized model than that of the London Police and more oriented to terrorizing dangers to the state and suppressing political agitation (Ellison and O’Reilly 2008: 398). But it was also a Peelian model in that it was forged during the time of three chief secretaries of Ireland: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel and Sir Henry Goulburn, the lifelong friend and deputy of Peel. These three all became parliamentarians who played prominent roles in the formation of the London Metropolitan Police (Ellison and O’Reilly 2008: 399).

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Braithwaite, J. (2018). Criminology, Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Global South. In: Carrington, K., Hogg, R., Scott, J., Sozzo, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_47

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