Description
Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time.
Contributors include scholars and activists from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a balance between authors from the Global North and the Global South. An introduction frames the topic within critical criminology, while also highlighting the possible disciplinary approaches and definitions of criminalization of resistance/activism. The editor also investigates the particularities of the current times in comparison to dynamics of criminalization in prior stages of capitalism. Bringing together a range of criminalization themes into a single volume, compromising historical criminology, Indigenous studies, gender studies, critical criminology, southern criminology and green criminology, it will be of great interest to scholars and students of criminology, social movement theory and social sciences, as well as those involved in activism and with a stand against criminalization.
Author: Valeria Weis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/23/2021
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780367700119
ISBN10: 0367700115
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | General
- Social Science | Criminology
About the Author
Valeria Vegh Weis is an Argentinean/German Criminologist and Criminal Lawyer. She teaches Criminology and Transitional Justice at Buenos Aires University, UBA, and National Quilmes University (Argentina) as well as State Crime in Nazi Germany at Freie UniversitÀt Berlin (Germany). She is currently a Research Fellow at the Zukunftkolleg at UniversitÀt Konstanz, where she researches on the role of human rights and victims' organizations in resistance to state crime. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, where she directs the research group on Transnational Criminal Law in Transatlantic Perspective (1870-1945) together with Prof. Dr. Karl HÀrter.
Vegh Weis holds a Ph.D. in Law and an LL.M. in Criminal Law from UBA and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University. She has held different fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), the Fulbright and the Hauser Global (USA).
Her first book Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity (BRILL 2017, Haymarket Books 2018) was awarded the Choice Award by the American Library Association and the Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. She is also the co-author of Bienvenidos al Lawfare with RaĂșl Zaffaroni anc Cristina Caamaño (Capital Intelectual 2020) which was translated into Portuguese and English, as well as many articles and book chapters in the topics of criminology, transitional justice and criminal law. She has 15 years of experience working in criminal courts and international organizations.
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