Empathy without bordersd: decolonial criminology, Western scholars, and peer methodology
Critical criminologists often empathise with the oppressed groups they research, and some of them even declare they dedicate their professional activity to helping the marginalised. But empathy and its derived drive to help have shadow sides. The borders between helping and colonising, for example,...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2025
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Criminological connections, directions, horizons
Year: 2025, Pages: 133-151 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | Critical criminologists often empathise with the oppressed groups they research, and some of them even declare they dedicate their professional activity to helping the marginalised. But empathy and its derived drive to help have shadow sides. The borders between helping and colonising, for example, can be thin. As critical criminology expands its areas of concern from class, gender, and race to include imperialism and global inequality, the question arises about how critical criminologists can help colonised groups without further colonising them. The ‘burden of proof’ is higher for Western critical criminologists. Criminology has colonial foundations, with some of its practitioners contributing to developing technologies of knowledge that were useful during imperialism and colonialism. Based on the data produced by a research project co-directed by Nigel South and me, which had three waves of data collection with Colombian Indigenous communities, this chapter discusses the advantages and shortcomings of peer methodology as a decolonial tool that Western scholars can implement to avoid further colonising the groups with which they empathise. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 148-151 |
| ISBN: | 9781032513065 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003401629-10 |
