Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems

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Ana Aliverti is a Professor of Law at the School of Law University of Warwick. She holds a D.Phil. in Law (Oxford 2012) an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Distinction Oxford 2008) an MA in Sociology of Law (IISL 2005) and a BA in Law (Honours Buenos Aires 2002). Her research explores questions of national identity and belonging in criminal justice and of law sovereignty and globalisation. She has led extensive empirical work in the UK's criminal justice and immigration systems. She is the author of Crimes of Mobility (Routledge 2013) and Policing the Borders Within (OUP 2021). She was co-awarded the British Society of Criminology Best Book Prize for 2014 and has received the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA) (2015) the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law (2017) and the British Journal of Criminology's Radzinowicz Prize. She is co-Director of the Criminal Justice Centre at Warwick and the Associate Director of Border Criminologies. Henrique Carvalho's research interests lie in the areas of criminal law criminalisation and punishment and legal social political and cultural theory. He joined the University of Warwick in September 2015 having previously worked as a Lecturer in Law at City University of London a Visiting Lecturer at King's College London and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the London School of Economics. Anastasia Chamberlen's research interests lie in the areas of theoretical criminology the sociology of punishment and prisons feminist theory and theoretical debates in the study of emotions embodiment and the arts in criminal justice. Having previously worked as a lecturer in criminology at Birkbeck University of London she joined Warwick's Sociology Department in 2016 as Associate Professor of Sociology. Over the last 25 years Máximo Sozzo has completed research in different areas of contemporary criminology always with a focus on Latin America and Argentina. He is now working on prisons and power historical transformations of punishment the mechanisms of sentencing without trial and the travels of ideas about the criminal question across the Global North and South.