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The Asian Criminological Paradigm and How It Links Global North and South: Combining an Extended Conceptual Tool box from the North with Innovative Asian Contexts

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This chapter reviews the development of Asian criminology under the framework of the Asian Criminological Paradigm (Liu, Asian Journal of Criminology, 4(1), 1–9, 2009). I primarily review the conceptual and theoretical developments, to suggest strategies that can contribute to the task of bridging the gap between global North and South. Asian criminology has expanded the theoretical tool box originally developed in the global North through the strategies of transportation of theories, elaboration of theories, and proposing new concepts and theories based on the empirical grounds of Asian contexts.

This article was originally published as: Liu, J. (2017). The Asian Criminological Paradigm and how it links global North and South: Combining an extended conceptual tool box from the North with innovative Asian contexts. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 6(1): 73–87. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v6i1.385.

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    The Analects, the recorded words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, includes Chap. 14, ‘Constitutional Question’, which is the original Constitution that was compiled by the disciples of Confucius.

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    Duke Ling of Wei was a ruler of the ancient Chinese state of Wei, the son of Duke Xiang of Wei. He was the subject of Chap. 15 of The Analects.

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Liu, J. (2018). The Asian Criminological Paradigm and How It Links Global North and South: Combining an Extended Conceptual Tool box from the North with Innovative Asian Contexts. 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_4

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