Introduction: Critical Criminology for the 21st Century

Valeria Vegh Weis

doi:10.1111/hojo.12446

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Introduction: Critical Criminology for the 21st Century

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This notion exposes that criminal selectivity does encompass the distinctive enforcement of punitive power according to class, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity, and the distinctive impact of under-criminalised crimes and harms in the lives of marginalised groups
Critical Criminology for the 21st CenturyVALERIA VEGH WEIS Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz; Professor of Criminology, Buenos Aires University and National Quilmes University, Argentina; Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany; Vice-President of the Latin-American Institute of Criminology and Social DevelopmentKonstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS) URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1boij53yjq1tv5We are amid a global pandemic; poverty is rising and the powerful are getting richer through mechanisms that exploit, oppress, and deprive others
critical criminology (CC) was born in the 1970s and achieved an unprecedented global impact

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Introduction

This notion exposes that criminal selectivity does encompass the distinctive enforcement of punitive power according to class, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity, and the distinctive impact of under-criminalised crimes and harms in the lives of marginalised groups. The special issue raises the point that in the 21st Century we need to look at the disproportionate selective victimisation of women, diversities, ethnic minorities, and migrants and how the crimes they suffer systematically crush their modest life plans (Collins, León, Tosh, de Carvalho/Matos).

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