Outputs (2)

Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2024). Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa. British Journal of Criminology, 64(5), 1063-1079. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae011

This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern wa... Read More about Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa.

Using theory from the Global South: from social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu (2024)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2024). Using theory from the Global South: from social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu. Theoretical Criminology, 28(3), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231221744

Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how th... Read More about Using theory from the Global South: from social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu.