A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology

This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal justice who, while they may be sceptical about certain aspects of human rights theory or practice, share an interest in realising many of the objectives set out in human rights instruments. It argues that critical criminological research has a significant role to play in identifying whether state and state-corporate power is exercised in ways that align with human rights law and principles, although the discipline has been slow to advance this agenda. This book covers a wide array of topics and seeks to develop critical human rights approaches within criminology and criminal justice.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: A research agenda for a human rights centred criminology(Leanne Weber and Marinella Marmo).- Chapter 2. Criminological research for human rights (Elizabeth Stanley).- Chapter 3. Speaking rights to power or governing through rights?: Making rights matter in the security field (Claire Hamilton).- Chapter 4. Researching policing from the perspective of the policed: studying human rights from below (Will Jackson).- Chapter 5. Criminology, humanitarianism, and the right to life at the border (Katja Franko).- Chapter 6. The promise and pitfalls of human rights in immigration detention (Mary Bosworth and Andriani Fili).- Chapter 7.  An anticolonial, abolitionist, and feminist lens to interrogate human rights penalty (Silvana Tapia Tapia).- Chapter 8. Human rights for Southern Criminology: Neoliberal colonialism and rights from below (Pablo Ciocchini and Joe Greener).- Chapter 9. Actioning the Human Rights Agenda and Issues of Access to Justice (Danielle Watson, Julie Berg and Lamese Laponi).- Chapter 10. Developing a kaupapa Maori rights-focused research agenda (Stella Black, Dave Burnside, Jess Hastings, and Katey Thom).- Chapter 11. Queer Criminology through the Lens of the Global South and its Impact on Human Rights (George B. Radics).-Chapter 12. Are victim stories human rights stories? Towards an ethics and politics of listening and seeing for victimology (Sandra Walklate).- Chapter 13. Gendered violence: A human rights agenda for criminology (Nancy A. Wonders and Sydney Shevat).- Chapter 14. Towards a Human Rights Criminology of Public Health (Raymond Michalowski and Rebecca Annorbah).- Chapter 15. Carceral Spaces and OPCAT: resisting the temptation of human rights? (Claire Loughnan and Steven Caruana)

Leanne Weber is Professor of Criminology at University of Canberra, Australia.

Marinella Marmo is Professor of Criminology at Flinders University, Australia.