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Global crime ethnographies : Three suggestions for a criminology that truly travels

Vigh, Henrik and Sausdal, David LU (2021) p.171-194
Abstract

This chapter proposes a novel ethnographic approach to global crime/criminology-an approach centered on the following four main points: (1) an attentiveness to how global dynamics afford criminal flows and transnational figurations; (2) a theoretical and methodological sensibility that moves beyond methodological nationalism; (3) a research design that follows criminal flows, rather than merely investigating their starting, middle, or endpoints; and (4) an approach that takes flows to constitute the spatial criminal(ized) phenomena being research, rather than being epiphenomenal to such crime. In criminology, looking at a growlingly globalized world of crime and criminalization, there have been increasing calls for a globalization of... (More)

This chapter proposes a novel ethnographic approach to global crime/criminology-an approach centered on the following four main points: (1) an attentiveness to how global dynamics afford criminal flows and transnational figurations; (2) a theoretical and methodological sensibility that moves beyond methodological nationalism; (3) a research design that follows criminal flows, rather than merely investigating their starting, middle, or endpoints; and (4) an approach that takes flows to constitute the spatial criminal(ized) phenomena being research, rather than being epiphenomenal to such crime. In criminology, looking at a growlingly globalized world of crime and criminalization, there have been increasing calls for a globalization of criminological methods and theories-or for a "criminology that travels." With such calls in mind, following the four points may be what is needed to make criminology sufficiently itinerant in a global day and age.

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Anthropology, Criminology that travels, Global crime/criminalization/criminology, Research collectives and interdisciplinarity, Transnational ethnography
host publication
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice
editor
Sandra, Bucerius ; Haggerty, Kevin and Berardi, Luca
pages
24 pages
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Oxford University Press
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  • scopus:105012809992
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9780190904500
9780190904517
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.8
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English
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  author       = {{Vigh, Henrik and Sausdal, David}},
  booktitle    = {{The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice}},
  editor       = {{Sandra, Bucerius and Haggerty, Kevin and Berardi, Luca}},
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  keywords     = {{Anthropology; Criminology that travels; Global crime/criminalization/criminology; Research collectives and interdisciplinarity; Transnational ethnography}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{171--194}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  title        = {{Global crime ethnographies : Three suggestions for a criminology that truly travels}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.8}},
  doi          = {{10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.8}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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