The Emergence of a Pacific Criminology
Guest editors Moses Faleolo (Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Miranda Forsyth (The Australian National University, Australia) have curated a set of articles from the inaugural symposium on Pacific Criminology and this special issue is the first collection to emerge under the banner of Pacific criminology.
Pacific criminology is an alternative way of criminological theorisation that simultaneously draws upon other criminological epistemologies but is also transcendentally distinctive and unique. The issue comprises nine articles and contributors include both Pacific Islanders and scholars from other regions: Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. An Epilogue from Tuivalu Lauganiu and Tamasailau-Suaali’i-Sauni includes a wonderful poem – and the guest editors remind us that:
It is exciting to be part of a Pacific criminology movement and its potentiality can do many things like the radical rethinking of the criminal justice system and the cultivation of intergenerational, interdisciplinary, intercultural, inter-legal and intersectional conversations. (Guest Editorial V13[1] 2024)
Guest Editorial Volume 13(3) 2024 https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3663
Issue Photo by Josaia Cakacaka on Unsplash
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. The Journal is currently indexed in Scopus as a Q1 in the subject category of ‘LAW’. Internationally, the Journal is ranked in the top 20 open access Law journals and is 1st in the Pacific Region.
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John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Avi Brisman (Book Editor); Marília de Nardin Budó (Book Editor), and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)
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