2023/09/20 by Laura Piacentini, Gavin Slade · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses #Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/bjc/azad048
openalex publication_date 2023/09/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Abstract This paper identifies an absence in currently constituted criminological discourse on the Global North and Global South. This absence is the Global East. The Global East is not a defined region but a relation of betweenness, geographically and geo-politically, within and between the South and North, representing peoples from countries and societies which fit imperfectly into a North/South binary. We focus on the Eastern European and Eurasian regions to demonstrate this point, concentrating specifically on its omission in punishment and society studies. Our paper makes a positive argument for the Global East concept, disrupting the assumed categories of North and South and producing a strategic essentialism to help better represent peoples thus far overlooked in southern criminology.