Punishment in Global Peripheries: Theoretical and comparative notes - Professor Máximo Sozzo

MacCormick Fellowship Seminar Series 2023

Punishment in Global Peripheries: Theoretical and comparative notes

How should we think about prisons in the global South, other than as ‘mere’ copies of a Northern template? Can we approach these institutions without exoticizing them, and the extremity of their problems? Can scholars of penal questions North and South thus embark upon a more equal and fruitful dialogue? This paper explores these challenges through a discussion of the recent proliferation of forms of ‘inmate governance’ in Latin American prisons.

About the Speaker

Máximo Sozzo is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Director of the Crime and Society Program (Programa Delito y Sociedad) of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina. Sozzo is co-author of Southern Criminology (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (Palgrave, 2018). Most recently he edited Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America (Palgrave, 2022). He has published widely on punishment and prison studies in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English and Mandarin and is currently visiting Scotland as a MacCormick Fellow at Edinburgh Law School (January – March 2023).

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