Professor WILLIAM DIXON's Outputs (7)

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.

Power, politics and the police: lessons from Marikana (2019)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2019). Power, politics and the police: lessons from Marikana. Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(2), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X19000053

This article examines the relationship between politicians and the police in the days before the shooting by members of the South African Police Service of 34 striking mineworkers at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on 16 August 2012. Drawi... Read More about Power, politics and the police: lessons from Marikana.

Criminologies of the global south: critical reflections (2019)
Journal Article
Carrington, K., Dixon, B., Fonseca, D., Rodríguez Goyes, D., Liu, J., & Zysman, D. (2019). Criminologies of the global south: critical reflections. Critical Criminology, 27(1), 163–189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09450-y

This article attempts an ambitious undertaking by scholars collaborating from far flung parts of the globe to redefine the geographic and conceptual limits of critical criminology. We attempt to scope, albeit briefly, the various contributions to cri... Read More about Criminologies of the global south: critical reflections.

Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner (2018)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2018). Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner. Policing, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay068

In the early 2000s, many police forces in England and Wales set up independent advisory groups (IAGs) following an inquiry into the flawed investigation of the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, by London's Metropolitan Police. Members of... Read More about Who needs critical friends? Independent advisory groups in the age of the police and crime commissioner.

A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana (2015)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2015). A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana. British Journal of Criminology, 55(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv056

Fifty-two years separate the fatal shootings by police of 69 anti-apartheid protestors at Sharpeville on 21st March 1960 and of 34 striking miners at Marikana on 16th August 2012. The parallels between the two ‘massacres’ are easy to overstate; but... Read More about A violent legacy: policing insurrection in South Africa from Sharpeville to Marikana.

Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha (2015)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2015). Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha. South African Crime Quarterly, 53, https://doi.org/10.4314/sacq.v53i1.1

Only rarely do inquiries into policing investigate the social context within which it takes place. This article looks at two inquiries which chose to take on this task: Lord Scarman’s into the Brixton Disorders in London in April 1981; and Justice C... Read More about Making further inquiries: policing in context in Brixton and Khayelitsha.