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- Title
Asian Criminology and Non-Western Criminology: Challenges, Strategies, and Directions.
- Authors
Jianhong Liu
- Abstract
Academic criminology originated in Western countries, primarily in Europe and in the USA. It has achieved great success, produced many influential theories, sophisticated methodology, academic institutions, and effective policy products, and has formed a productive paradigm, which has led to a flourishing discipline. However, as there have been growing critiques against "Western-centric" criminology, growing attention has turned to non-Western criminology. As Belknap has said, "We are in an exciting time in criminology, as the scholarship is becoming more global, collaborative, and interdisciplinary." This paper addresses several important disciplinary questions: the relationship between Western and non-Western criminology, the strategies of developing criminology under non-Western contexts, the relationship between context-dependent findings from the non-West and the scientific traditions that seek unified human knowledge of criminology. The article suggests a strategy for developing non-Western criminology based on the experience of the successful growth of Asian criminology over the past decade under the concept of an "Asian criminological paradigm."
- Subjects
EUROPE; UNITED States; CRIMINOLOGY; CRIMINOLOGISTS; CRIME
- Publication
International Annals of Criminology, 2021, Vol 59, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
0003-4452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/cri.2021.16