Global Criminology

Global Criminology examines globalised forms of mass harm from both historical and contemporary perspectives. It focuses on harms that have typically gone below the criminological radar. The subject will ask students to think about the problem of crime outside the traditional parameters of criminological study. Linking past and present, it examines the longer histories, impacts and contexts of harms such as conflicts, colonialism, genocide and slavery. Case studies analysed may include the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the former Yugoslavia, Apartheid in South Africa, settler colonialism in Australia, and chattel slavery in the Americas amongst many others. Connecting decolonial theory and interdisciplinary inquiry, the subject explores crimes that cross national borders, crimes committed by nation states and international responses to them.