Abstract
This chapter proposes a novel ethnographic approach to global crime/criminology—an approach centered on the following four main points: (1) an attentiveness to how global dynamics afford criminal flows and transnational figurations; (2) a theoretical and methodological sensibility that moves beyond methodological nationalism; (3) a research design that follows criminal flows, rather than merely investigating their starting, middle, or endpoints; and (4) an approach that takes flows to constitute the spatial criminal(ized) phenomena being research, rather than being epiphenomenal to such crime. In criminology, looking at a growlingly globalized world of crime and criminalization, there have been increasing calls for a globalization of criminological methods and theories—or for a “criminology that travels.” With such calls in mind, following the four points may be what is needed to make criminology sufficiently itinerant in a global day and age.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice |
| Editors | Bucerius Sandra, Kevin Haggerty, Luca Berardi |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190904500 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
