Routledge Handbook of Africana Criminologies

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook on Africana Criminologies</em> plugs a gaping hole in criminological literature, which remains dominated by work on Europe and settler-colonial locations at the expense of neocolonial locations and at a huge cost to the discipline that remains relatively underdeveloped. </p><p>It is well known that criminology is thriving in Europe and settler-colonial locations while people of African descent remain marginalized in the discipline. This handbook therefore defines and explores this field within criminology, moving away from the colonialist approach of offering administrative criminology about policing, courts, and prisons and making a case for decolonizing the wider discipline. Arranged in five parts, it outlines Africana criminologies, maps its emergence, and addresses key themes such as slavery, colonialism, and apartheid as crimes against humanity; critiques of imperialist reason; Africana cultural criminology; and theories of law enforcement and Africana people. Coalescing a diverse range of voices from Africa and the diaspora, the handbook explores outside Eurocentric canons in order to learn from the experiences, struggles, and contributions of people of African descent. </p><p>Offering innovative ways of theorizing and explaining the criminological crises that face Africa and the entire world with the view of contributing to a more humane world, this groundbreaking handbook is essential reading for criminologists and sociologists worldwide, as well as scholars of Africana studies and African studies.</p> <p>Foreword<br><i>Obi B. Ebbe</i> </p><p>Introduction <br><i>Biko Agozino</i></p><p>PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF AFRICANA CRIMINOLOGIES</p><ol> <p> </p> <li>Nelson Mandela’s Criminology: A Decolonial Intervention<br><i>Nontyatyambo Pearl Dastile and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>"Africana Liberation Criminologies"<br><i>Biko Agozino</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Mbari and Ubuntu in Indigenous Africana Criminologies</li> <i> </i><p>O. Oko Elechi</p> <b> </b><p>PART II: SLAVERY, COLONIALISM, AND APARTHEID AS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY</p> <p> </p> <li>Trans-Saharan Human Trafficking as a Crime against Humanity: Patterns, Evolution, and Implications for People-Centred Development in Africa<br><i>James Okolie-Osemene</i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Colonialism in Africa: A Forgotten Crime against Humanity</li> <i> </i><p>Patrick Bashizi Bashige Murhula and Norman Chivasa</p> <b> </b><p>PART III: THE CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALIST REASON IN AFRICANA CRIMINOLOGY</p> <p> </p> <li>The Criminalization of People of African Descent in Brazil </li> <i> </i><p>Paulo Mileno</p> <p> </p> <li>Is Physical Violence Not the Only Form of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)? <br>A Review of Perspectives of IPV among African Women and Men</li> <p><i>Anita Kalunta-Crumpton </i></p> <p> </p> <li>The Retention of Colonial Laws Against African Women</li> <i> </i><p>Alaba Oludare</p> <p> </p> <li>Global Lockdown of People of African Descent</li> <i> </i><p>Festus C. Obi<b> </b></p> <p><b>PART IV: AFRICANA CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY</b></p> <p> </p> <li>Resisting the Colonialist Crime of Sedition among African People</li> <i> </i><p>Abiodun Raufu</p> <p> </p> <li>Resisting the Criminalization of Hip-Hop Culture among Africana People</li> </ol><p>Corey Miles </p><p>12. Rethinking School Discipline in Africa: From Punishment and Control to Restorative Justice Practices</p><p><i>Augustine Obeleagu Agu and Patrick Ibe</i></p><p><strong>PART V: THEORIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND AFRICANA PEOPLE </strong></p><p>13.<strong> </strong>The War on Terrorism in Africa: Human Rights Issues, Implications, and Recommendations</p><p><i>Ifeoma E. Okoye and Lucy Tsado</i></p><p>14. Gangs, Gang Dynamics, and Gender: Exploring Gangs in Trinidad and Tobago</p><p><i>Wendell C. Wallace</i></p><p>15. The White International: "The Cause of the White Man on the Pacific Coast"</p><p><i>Mandisi Majavu</i></p><p>16. Gunboat Criminology in the History of People of African Descent: Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo Examples</p><p><i>Emmanuel Onyeozili</i></p><p>17. The Criminology of W.E.B. Du Bois</p><p>O. Oko Elechi</p><p>18. People of African Descent and the Retention of the Death Penalty</p><p><i>Noel Otu</i></p><p>Conclusion<br><i>Nontyatyambo Pearl Dastile </i></p><p>Index</p>