RT Article
T1 Embodiments and frictions of statehood in transnational criminal justice
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 3
SP 493
OP 510
A1 Stambøl, Eva Magdalena
A2 Solhjell, Randi
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767142536
AB Outside of criminology, dominant conceptions of postcolonial statehood in the Global South as ‘fragile’ or ‘failed’ have long been criticized. In criminology, however, the theoretical outcomes of this critique have been scarce. In this article we therefore ask how ideals and practices of transnational criminal justice are informed by and productive of specific (Global North) conceptions of statehood. Exploring encounters between transnational and local criminal justice in the context of international state-building in Mali and Liberia, we observe frictions in which statehood divergences and global hierarchies become apparent. Through penal aid, we argue, a particular kind of penal statehood is produced wherein the options of how to perform penality are increasingly limited by the embeddedness in global power asymmetries.
K1 transnational criminal justice
K1 Statehood
K1 Performativity
K1 Global South
K1 gender-based violence
K1 Cybercrime
K1 Mali
K1 Liberia
DO 10.1177/13624806211009481