Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
About the Book Series
Crime and justice studies, as with much social science, has concentrated mainly on problems in the metropolitan centres of the Global North, while Asia and the Global South have remained largely invisible in criminological thinking. This research series aims to redress this imbalance by showcasing exciting new ways of thinking and doing crime and justice research from the global periphery.
Bringing together scholarly work from a range of disciplines, from criminology, law, and sociology to psychology, cultural geography and comparative social sciences, this series offers grounded empirical research and fresh theoretical approaches and cover a range of pressing topics, including international corruption, drug use, environmental issues, sex work, organized crime, innovative models of justice, and punishment and penology.
Vietnamese Organized Crime in its International Dimension: The Collected Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Hai Thanh Luong, Filip Kraus, Miroslav Nožina, Daniel Silverstone
June 05, 2026
This book provides an in-depth examination of the intricate landscape of Vietnamese organised crime and its extensive international influence. Covering regions such as Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, it elucidates how migration, socioeconomic disparities, and informal networks ...
Wasted Lives: The Social Exclusion of Older Triads Who Use Drugs in the Hong Kong Illegal Employment Market
1st Edition
By Vincent Shing Cheng
January 22, 2026
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Hong Kong, this book offers an investigation of the lives of older triad members who use drugs, focusing on their social exclusion within the underground criminal economy. Situated in the Driftwood Bay district – a site often represented ...
Southernising Criminology: Challenges, Horizons and Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Luiz Dal Santo, Carla Sepúlveda Penna
September 29, 2025
This book introduces the ‘Southern criminology’ movement; explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools; offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions; and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from Southern ...
Policing Welfare Fraud: The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance
1st Edition
By Scarlet Wilcock
May 06, 2025
Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia, which serves as the empirical focus of this book, these strategies include stringent ID checks, pre-emptive data surveillance technologies including the...
Towards a Southern Approach to Sex Work: Lived Experience and Resilience in a Bangladeshi Brothel
1st Edition
By Habiba Sultana
June 30, 2022
This book delves into this almost unchartered territory, documenting the lived experiences of sex workers in Bangladesh, considering the complex realities of their day-to-day lives and the ways they negotiate their working conditions and relationships. Despite being the most common form of female ...
Mapping Security in the Pacific: A Focus on Context, Gender and Organisational Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Amin, Danielle Watson, Christian Girard
June 13, 2022
This book examines questions about the changing nature of security and insecurity in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Previous discussions of security in the Pacific region have been largely determined by the geopolitical interests of the Global North. This volume instead attempts to centre PICs’ ...
A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing: Governing Insecurity in Urban Brazil
1st Edition
By Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
January 31, 2022
A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examines public experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people ...
Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Pablo Ciocchini, George Radics
April 01, 2021
This edited volume presents the work of academics from the Global South and explores, from local and regional settings, how the legal order and people’s perceptions of it translates into an understanding of what constitutes "criminal" behaviors or activities. This book aims to address the gap ...
Organized Crime and Corruption Across Borders: Exploring the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
Edited
By T. Wing Lo, Dina Siegel, Sharon Kwok
April 01, 2021
This book explores China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the criminogenic potential for economic, financial, and socio-cultural cooperation across countries, where some are known for weak law enforcement and high levels of corruption. It examines whether these flows of capital are increasing the ...
Punishment in Contemporary China: Its Evolution, Development and Change
1st Edition
By Enshen Li
July 31, 2020
Punishment in contemporary China has experienced dramatic shifts over the last seven decades or so. This book focuses on the evolution, development and change of punishment in the Maoist (1949-1977), reform (1978-2001) and post-reform eras (2002-) of China to understand the shaping and ...