Theme
Criminal justice and global crime governance are an integrated – but underexplored – dimension of states’ foreign affairs. Beyond its territorial borders, states seek to govern through crime and criminal justice, sometimes bilaterally, often multilaterally, and increasingly to tackle the identified perils of global flows. Criminology have studied the widening net of global crime governance as part of the liberal international project, where efforts to fight transnational and international crimes and insecurities while promoting penal reform in the global south have dovetailed liberal ‘universals’ of human rights, rule of law, democracy, and development. Today, due in part to seismic geopolitical shifts and power struggles, the liberal international order underpinning these discourses and their practices are in decline.
The book will explore the role of criminal justice in the foreign policy of states. How do crime control policies, penal practices, and technologies of crime governance factor in states’ foreign policy toolbox? How is criminal justice part of states’ external logics and manifestations of sovereign power? How is criminal justice part of states’ efforts to make global order? Animated by these questions, the book seeks to contribute to the crossing of the Criminology/IR divide by critically engaging with how extraterritorial criminal justice is part of order-making beyond the territorial nation state framework of analysis.
We are interested in a variety of topics on crime, justice, and foreign affairs, including contemporary and historical perspectives. We welcome contributions from all around the world. Contributions may focus on, but are not limited to, states’ foreign policy on the internationalization of specific penal policies, sanctions and arrest warrants as foreign policy tools, colonial trajectories of penal (state) power, and the foreign policy of ‘extraterritorial’ crime control such as transnational prison deals, penal reform, and penal development aid.
Organization
The idea for the book emerges from the research project ‘Promoting Justice in a Time of Friction: Scandinavian Penal Exports’ (JustExports), led by Kjersti Lohne and financed by the Norwegian Research Council. Lohne will edit the book together with project members and researchers Randi Solhjell and Katrine Antonsen.
Mary Bosworth, Ron Levi, Vanessa Barker, and Nathan Pino have expressed their interest to contribute chapters.
The book is intended for publication with an internationally acclaimed publisher.
Deadline
If you are interested in being part of the edited book, abstracts of approximately 300 words should be emailed to Kjersti Lohne at kjersti.lohne@jus.uio.no before February 15th, 2025.