Global Crime Ethnographies : Three Suggestions for a Criminology That Truly Travels

Summary, in English

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.

• Author: Henrik Vigh; David Sausdal
• Editor: Bucerius Sandra; Kevin Haggerty; Luca Berardi
• Department/s: Department of Sociology
• Publishing year: 2021
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Topic: Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 9780190904500