期刊名称：African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies
电子版ISSN：1554-3897
出版年度：2014
卷号：8
期号：1
出版社：African Criminology and Justice Association
摘要：clue to the inspiration for this special edition of the African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies can be found in its title, ‘Indigenous Perspectives and Counter Colonial Criminologies’. In the late 2000s one of the guest editors’ for this edition was advised to read ‘Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason’ by Nigerian scholar Biko Agozino: a book that a friend and colleague described as “ground-breaking”. Biko’s papyrus, published in 2003, is considered by many Indigenous and critical justice commentators as a landmark critique of Western criminology (Oriola, 2006; Tauri, 2012a). He aptly describes the discipline as a ‘control freak’ (Agozino, 2010) whose intellectual origins are grounded in the intersection of Enlightenment scholarship and Western Europe’s colonial endeavours of the 18th and 19th centuries (Agozino, 2003).
