RT Article
T1 Neo-colonial criminology: quantifying silence
JF African journal of criminology and justice studies
VO 8
IS 1
SP 39
OP 63
A1 Deckert, Antje
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1852486538
AB In Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America, Indigenous peoples continue to experience incarceration at markedly disproportionate rates. Some scholars have criticised criminology for contributing to this social problem by marginalising Indigenous peoples in research and research publications. This study is a first attempt to quantitatively evaluate the (de)colonised state of contemporary criminology. It involves a comprehensive review of research on ‘Indigenous peoples in the criminal justice context’, which has been undertaken in aforesaid countries and was published in elite criminology journals over the past decade (2001-2010). The findings reveal that publication rates on the subject are low both compared to incarceration rates and compared to the quantity of academic discourse about other disproportionately incarcerated social groups. Since an adequate, i.e. attention-grabbing, quantity of academic discourse has been linked to the public recognition of social problems, the dearth of publications on the subject suggests that mainstream criminology inhibits public attention to the issue and thus contributes to the marginalisation of Indigenous peoples, the reproduction of social inequality and the preservation of elite power.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 58-62
K1 Indigenes Volk
K1 Festnahme
K1 Überrepräsentation
K1 Indigenous Peoples
K1 Marginalisation
K1 Incarceration
K1 overrepresentation
K1 Discourse