Luiz Dal Santo is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, UK.

Carla Sepúlveda Penna is Assistant Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.

Introduction PART I: Theoretical, methodological, and philosophical issues, challenges, and possibilities 1 Pressing questions, Southern answers: on Southernising criminology 2 Social science on a world scale 3 Imperialism, racial capitalism, and postcolonialism 4 Southernising criminology and global social indicators 5 Toward a Southern criminology PART II: Criminology around the globe with a Southern lens 6 The state of criminological studies in East Asia 7 Southernizing Arab criminology: a dialogical approach 8 African and counter-colonial perspectives in criminology PART III: Researching global peripheries and semi-peripheries 9 Moroccan and Guatemalan military servicemen: the role of war and genocide propaganda 10 Neocolonialism through donors aid: Northern-funded transitional justice entrepreneurs and the undermining of an independent victims' agenda in Kenya 11 'Bad friends' doing armed robbery in Nigeria: a theoretical and methodological exploration 12 Economy and punishment: current theories through a peripheral perspective