Marginalised Voices in Criminology

<p>This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked spoken about or for. In recognising the deep-seated structural inequalities that exist within criminal justice higher education and the field of criminology we offer this text as a critical pause to the reader and invite you to reflect and consider within your studies and learning experience your teaching and your research: <i>whose</i> voices dominate and whose are marginalised or excluded within criminology and <i>why</i>?</p><p>This edited collection offers chapters from international criminology scholars activists and practitioners to bring together a range of perspectives that have been marginalised or excluded from criminological discourse. It considers both obscured and marginalised criminological theorists and schools of thought presents alternative viewpoints on ‘traditional’ criminal justice themes and considers how marginalisation is perpetuated through criminological research and criminological teaching. Engaging with debates on power colonialism identity hegemony and privilege and bringing together perspectives on gender race and ethnicity indigenous knowledge (s) queer and LGBTQ+ issues disabilities and class this concise collection brings together key thinkers and ideas around concerns about epistemological supremacy.</p><p><i>Marginalised Voices in Criminology </i>is crucial reading for courses on criminological theory and concerns diversity gender race and identity.</p>