Reference List for “Abolition and (de)colonisation” 


‘A West Indian Planter’ (1788) Considerations on the Emancipation of Negroes London: J Johnson

Adebisi, F. (2019) ‘Why I Say ‘Decolonisation is Impossible’ African Skies Online at:  https://folukeafrica.com/why-i-say-decolonisation-is-impossible/

Agozino, B. (2003) Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist reason.  London: Pluto Press

Agozino, B. (2004) ‘Reparative Justice: A Pan-African Criminology Primer’ pp. 228-248 in Anita Kalunta-Crumpton and Biko Agozino (Eds) Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice Aldershot: Ashgate

Agozino, B. (2018) ‘The Withering Away of the Law: An Indigenous Perspective on the Decolonisation of the Criminal Justice System and Criminology’ Journal of Global Indigeneity, 3(1),

Aliverti, A., Carvalho, H., Chamberlen, A. and Sozzo, M. (2021) ‘Decolonizing the criminal question’ Punishment and Society 23(3) pp. 297-316

Anderson, C. (2004) Legible Bodies: Race, Criminality and Colonialism in South Asia, New York: Berg.

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (2013) ‘ Transformative Justice and Community Accountability’ online https://batjc.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/tj-ca-one-pager.pdf

Sven Beckett (2014) Empire of Cotton London: Penguin

Bellamy, R. (1992) Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument, Cambridge: Polity Press. 

Bhambra, G.K., Gebrial, D. and Nişancioğlu, K. (2018) ‘Introduction: Decolonising the University’ in Bhambra, G.K., Gebrial, D. and Nişancioğlu, K. (editors) Decolonising the University London: Pluto Press pp.1-18

Blagg, H. and Anthony, T. (2019) Decolonising Criminology: Imagining Justice in a Postcolonial World London: Palgrave Macmillan

Bonger, W.A. (1943) Race and Crime. Montclair, New Jersey: Patterson Smith

Carrington, K., Hogg, R. & Sozzo, M. (2016) ‘Southern Criminology’ British Journal of Criminology Vol. 56, No. 1 pp. 1-20.

Césaire, A. (2000) Discourse on Colonialism (translated by Joan Pinkham) New York: Monthly Review Press

Chatterjee, P. (2012) The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power, Princeton: Princeton University Press

Christie, N. (2004) A Suitable Amount of Crime. London: Routledge

Cobbett, W. (1829) Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women. London: Mills, Jowett & Mills 

Cohen, S. (1982) ‘Bandits, Rebels, or Criminals: African History and Western Criminology’ Africa: Journal of the International African Institute  56 (4) pp 468-483 

Colquhoun, P. (1796) A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis (3rd Edition) London: C Dilly 

Critical Resistance (undated) What is the PIC? What is abolition? Online: http://criticalresistance.org/about/not-so-common-language/

Cunneen, C. (1999) ‘Criminology, genocide and the Forced Removal of Indigenous Children from their Families’ The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 124–138

Cunneen, C. (2011) ‘Postcolonial perspectives for criminology’ in Bosworth, M and Hoyle, C. What is Criminology?Oxford: Oxford University Press

Cunneen, C. and Tauri, J. (2016) Indigenous Criminology. Bristol: Policy Press

Davis, A.Y. (2016) Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundation of a Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books 

Dhillon, S (2021) ‘An immanent critique of decolonisation projects’ Convivial Thinking online: https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/2021/09/25/critique-of-decolonisation-projects/

Edwards, B. (1793) The History, Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies (volume ii) London:

Elechi, O.O. (2004) ‘Women and (African) Indigenous Justice Systems’ in Anita Kalunta-Crumpton and Biko Agozino (eds.) Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice Aldershot: Ashgate pp 157-179

Elliott-Cooper, A. (2021) Black Resistance to British Policing, Manchester: Manchester University Press

Evans, I. (2005) ‘Racial violence and the origins of segregation in South Africa’, in C. Elkins and S. Pedersen (eds.) Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century, New York: Routledge. 

Fanon, F. (1967) The Wretched of the Earth, London: Penguin Books

Fanon, F (2018) ‘Conduct of confession in North Africa (2)’,  in Fanon, F. Alienation and Freedom (Edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young, Translated by Steven Corcoran) London: Bloomsbury Academic pp. 413-416

Forero, A. (2017) ‘Old and New Discourse: the Role of Positivist Criminology in the Criminalisation of Anarchism’ Justice, Power and resistance 1 (2) pp. 178-199 

Foucault, M. (1980) ‘Prison Talk’ pp. 37-54 in Foucault. M. (1980) Power/knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 New York Harvester Wheatsheaf

Foucault, M. (2002) The Order of Things. London: Routledge

Garland, D. (1988) ‘British Criminology before 1935’ British Journal of Criminology 28 (2) pp. 1-17

Garofalo, R. (1914) Criminology Boston, Little, Brown and Company

Gilmore, R. W. and Murakawa N. (2020) ‘Covid 19, Decarceration, and Abolition’ Haymarket Books on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf3f5i9vJNM 

Hall. C. (2002) Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867, Cambridge: Polity Press

Hill, M.D. (1857) Suggestions for the Repression of Crime, contained in Charges Delivered to Grand Juries of Birmingham London: John W. Parker

Hillyard, P. and Tombs, S. (2004) ‘Beyond Criminology’ in Hillyard, P et al. (eds.), Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously London: Pluto Press.

Kaba, M. (2021) We do this ‘til we free us, Chicago: Haymarket Books

Kalunta-Crumpton, A. (2004) ‘Criminology and Orientalism’ pp. 5-22 in Anita Kalunta-Crumpton and Biko Agozino (Eds) Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice Aldershot: Ashgate

Kolsky, E. (2010) Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and The rule of Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Lamble, S. (2021) ‘Practising everyday abolition’ in Duff, K (ed.) Abolishing The Police, London: Dog Section Press, pp. 147-160 

Liu, J. (2009), ‘Asian Criminology—Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions’, Asian Journal of Criminology, 4 pp. 1–9.

Lombroso, C. (2006) Criminal Man Durham: Duke University Press

Loomba, A. (2005) Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Abingdon: Routledge

Losurdo, D. (2011) Liberalism: A Counter-History, London: Verso

Mannheim, K. (1936) Ideology and Utopia, London: Routledge

Mathiesen, T. (1974) The Politics of Abolition New York: Wiley.

Mayhew, H. (2008) London Labour & the London Poor Ware: Wordsworth Classics

McCleod, A.M. (2019) ‘Envisioning Abolition Democracy’ Harvard Law School, Vol. 132, pp. 1613-1649.

Mehta, U.S. (1999) Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (2nd edition) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Moore, J.M. (2009) ‘Penal Reform: A History of Failure’, Criminal Justice Matters, Vol. 77 pp. 12-13

Moore, J.M. (2014) ‘Is the Empire coming home? Liberalism, exclusion and the punitiveness of the British State’ pp. 31-48 in Papers from the British Criminology Conference Vol. 14.

Moore, J.M. (2015) ‘Reframing the ‘Prison Works’ debate. For whom and in what ways does prison work?’ Reclaim Justice Network, online  https://reclaimjusticenetwork.org.uk/2015/03/10/reframing-the-prison-works-debate-for-whom-and-in-what-ways-does-prison-work/

Moore, J.M. (2016) ‘Built for inequality in a diverse world: The historic origins of criminal justice’ pp. 38-56 in Papers from the British Criminology Conference Vol. 16.

Moore, J.M (2020) ‘“Law”, “order”, “justice”, “crime”: disrupting key concepts in criminology through the study of colonial history’, The Law Teacher, 54 (4), pp. 489-502 

Neocleous, M. (2021) A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order London: Verso

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, (1986) Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, London: John Curry 

Okafọ, N. (2006) ‘Relevance of African Traditional Jurisprudence of Control, Justice and Law: A Critique of the Igbo experience’, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 36-62

Okafọ, N. (2012) ‘A Justice Void Filled: Explaining the Endurance of Extreme Tradition-Based Laws in Nigeria’, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies Vol. 6, No. 1&2, pp. 121-142

Olusoga, D. (2016) Black and British: A Forgotten History (Macmillan 2016).

Onyeozili, E.C. (2004) ‘Gunboat Criminology and the Colonization of Africa’ in Kalunta-Crumpton, A. and Agozino, B. (Eds) Pan-African Issues in Crime and Justice Aldershot: Ashgate 

Oyėwùmi, O. (1997) The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

PSN (2001) Prisoners Solidarity Network: Retrospective 20202021) online: https://download-files.wixmp.com/ugd/f47671_9ae78385e25d412eb67e29c09897544e.pdf?

Radzinowicz, L. and Hood, R.  A History of The English Criminal Law: Volume 5 The Emergence of Penal Policy, London: Stevens and Sons

Rafter, N. (2008) ‘Criminology’s Darkest Hour: Biocriminology in Nazi Germany’ Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 41(2), pp. 287-306

Rankine, C. (2015) Citizen: An American Lyric. London: Penguin Books

Rijpma, S. (2015) David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease: A Close Examination of His Writing on the Pre-colonial Era Leiden: Brill

Russell, K.K. (1992) ‘Development of a black criminology and the role of the black criminologist’ Justice Quarterly, 9 (4) pp. 667-68 

Saini, A. (2020) Superior: The Return of Race Science London: 4th Estate

Sen, S. (2012) Disciplined Natives: Race, Freedom and Confinement in Colonial India. Delhi: Primus Books

Solomos, J., Findlay, B., Jones, S. and Gilroy, P. (1982) ‘The organic crisis of British capitalism and race: The experience of the seventies’, in Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (eds.) The Empire Strikes Back: Race and racism in 70s Britain, London: Routledge. 

Stoler, A.L. (1995) Race and the Education of Desire; Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, Durham: Duke University Press

Tauri, J.M. (2018) ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House: An Indigenous Critique of Criminology’ Journal of Global Indigeneity Vol. 3, No. 1, Article 6.

Tuck, E and Yang, K. W. (2012) ‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society 1, no. 1.

Uchendu, V.C. (1965) The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Unnever, J.D., Gabbidon, S.L. and Chouhy, C. (2019) Building a Black Criminology: Race, Theory, and Crime New York: Routledge.

Walvin,  J. (1982) ‘Black caricature: the roots of racialism’ pp 59-72 in Charles Husband (ed.) ‘Race’ in Britain: Continuity and change, London: Hutchinson

Wolfe, P. (2016) Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. London: Verso