Most methodological discussions about the pros and cons of repeat interviews fall within qualitative longitudinal literature are premised on project designs with relatively long intervals between encounters. Less attention has been paid to practice ethics interviewing as a stand-alone method, that does not follow participants long-term, but instead conducts several over short period time. This article is based research logs from in which 350 incarcerated persons Latin America were...

Issues related to victimhood are central transitional justice and international criminal justice. However, processes of do not usually include victims drug-related violence, despite the fact that in several Latin American countries deaths caused by cartel violence easily meet criteria civil war. This article's argument is distinctions between war what often termed conventional crime great importance notions legitimate contexts. Taking Colombia's Victims’ Law (2011) as a case study, we argue...

Families are integral to the organization of Mexican society. In a context where State is absent or weak, family serves as social safety net and pivotal for everything from housing paid work. As structural backbone society, exists within widespread cultural representation denominated familism, often characterized by culture conflict avoidance, tight relationships, mutual support, self-sacrifice well-being family. other words, contributes more harmonious But organizing society around also has...

The possibility of commercially exploiting plant, animal and human genetic resources unlocked by biotechnology has given rise to a wide range cultural, environmental, ethical economic conflicts. While supporters describe this activity as bioprospecting, critics refer it biopiracy. According latter view, international legal agreements treaties have disregarded opposition legalized the appropriating their derivative products through use patents. framework that permits appropriation natural in...

Abstract Generally, the traditional Indigenous ways of ‘knowing and seeing’ natural world lead to more protective behaviours than dominating economic approach that represents interests global North. living remembering are however, currently threatened with erosion by several dynamics. While many most powerful forces involved in extinguishment peoples their cultures visible direct forms violence, there also structural, systemic invisible factors at play. In this article, based on original...

This article raises the question of whether recently implemented legislation in Colombia and Brazil (1) provides necessary tools to prevent harms wildlife trafficking (WLT) (2) influences humans’ practices concerning use nonhuman animals. These questions are investigated from dual perspectives green criminology public policy. The analysis is based on a qualitative empirical study undertaken whereby we discuss function preventing illegal WLT. We consider legitimacy different WLT evaluate them...

Abstract This exploratory study develops a “southern green cultural criminology” approach to the prevention of environmental harms and crimes. The main aim is understand differing representations nature, including wildlife, present within four Colombian Indigenous communities evaluate whether they encourage environmentally friendly human interactions with natural world, if so, how. draws on primary data gathered by authors (peer researchers) this article via set interviews representatives...

Worldwide, medical doctors and lawyers cooperate in health justice projects. These professionals pursue the ideal that, one day, every individual on Earth will be equally protected from hazards that impair health. The main hindrances to are discrimination, poverty segregation, but we know beyond concrete, quantifiable barriers, symbolic elements such as beliefs fears also play a significant role perpetuating injustice. So, between March 2020, when World Health Organization declared COVID-19...

Generally, in the modern, western world, conceptualizations of natural environment are associated with what nature can offer us—an anthropocentric perspective whereby humans treat and all its biotic components as ‘natural resources’. When beings within it regarded purely utilitarian terms, lose sight fact that ecosystems nonhuman animals have intrinsic value. Most biotechnological use is informed by an instrumental view nature. In this article, we endeavour to broaden field animal abuse...

Abstract There is a dearth of criminological scholarship on how the political persuasions governments affect Indigenous people as it relates to human rights and environmental consequences, whether positive or negative, for peoples. To address this gap, we develop comparative instrumental case study policies concerning peoples implemented during two periods in Brazil: administrations presidents Silva (2003–2010) Rousseff (2011–2016) Temer (2016–2018) Bolsonaro (2019–). We explore consequences...

Abstract Collective memory of atrocities is a fractured and disputed terrain. In this article, we empirically explore the complex process translating violent events that took place in Medellín during 1980s 1990s into collective memory. It examines conflict between inhabitants’ (in)ability to overcome trauma shape their identity power global media representations, exemplified by popular TV shows such as Narcos, impose narratives consequently present nature city. Drawing on original empirical...

This is the third special issue of IJCJSD seeking to engage in global Green Criminological Dialogues, previously presenting ‘Voices from Americas and Europe’ (Goyes et al, 2019) then Asia’ 2022). The focus for this collection Africa, a continent enormous diversity—in Indigenous Peoples Local Communities (hereafter IPLCs), environments, non-human species, resources—that has fuelled dynamics exploitation, conflict, crimes, harm centuries.

Indigenous peoples, their cultures and territories, have been subjected to continuous victimisation, plunder genocide throughout history—or at least ‘history’ as created by written from the North. Since contact with colonisers, these many different peoples suffered legal illegal forms of direct, structural symbolic violence. Meanwhile, criminology—the discipline concerned studying instances criminality, harm victimisation—has largely remained untouched or indifferent serious crimes...