R. Thilagaraj and Jianhong Liu (eds.), Restorative justice in India: traditional practice and contemporary applications

Tiwari, Ramkanta

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“…Comparative criminal justice research has provided ample evidence of vast variations in criminal justice across different cultural contexts and across different countries. However, almost all influential criminal justice theories have been developed based on data from Western contexts, especially the US and Europe, and consequently, they have a very limited theoretical scope and are often inapplicable to non-Western countries or cultural contexts (e.g., Liu, 2014bLiu, , 2016Liu, , 2017aLiu, , 2017bLiu, , 2021aLiu & Miyazawa, 2018;Liu et al, 2017;Thilagaraj & Liu, 2017). Western-originated theories tend to assume implicitly their generalizability for non-Western contexts, while little effort has been made to systematically incorporate cultural variation into them.…”

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The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift

Liu

2024

Asian J Criminol

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There are two significant difficulties in building a general criminal justice theory. First, different from criminology theories, criminal justice produces multiple outcomes at different levels. Second, the scopes of existing theories largely originate from Western contexts and data, few including cross-cultural variation. This paper outlines a unified theory to explain multiple criminal justice outcomes at the system, institutional, and individual levels across cultures under a paradigm shift from the current "monotonic paradigm" to a more general "comparison paradigm." The new paradigm logically contains the existing paradigm while broadening research questions and scope of criminal justice studies. It constructs a new set of concepts and propositions, presenting an effort toward a general causal criminal justice theory.

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The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift

Liu

2024

Asian J Criminol

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“…The series has published nine books from 2018 onwards, introducing innovative concepts, theories and policies originating in Asian societies to Western scholars. This series mainly focuses on China (Ghazi-Tehrani and Pontell 2022;Ma 2022;Shen 2018;Yuan 2017), India (Krishnaswamy et al 2022;Rajput 2020;Thilagaraj and Liu 2017) and Japan (Liu and Miyazawa 2017), with the broad themes of crime, victimization, criminal justice and restorative justice. The series also focuses on comparative criminology in Asia, presents research from both Western and Asian perspectives, contrasts theoretical issues in both quantitative and qualitative methods, and discusses criminological topics related to theories and other important issues (Liu et al, 2017b).…”

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Asian Criminology: Its Contribution in Linking Global North and South

Zhang,

Liu

2023

Int. ann. criminol.

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In recent years, Asian criminology and Southern criminology have drawn scholarly attention to the profound divide between Western and non-Western societies, or the Global North and Global South, in criminological knowledge production. Perspectives from Asian and Southern criminology expose these divides and propose critical ways to correct the hegemony of Western over non-Western, or Northern over Southern, knowledge production. For the contemporary movement of decolonization of knowledge, a particular contribution of Asian criminology is to link Western and non-Western, or Northern and Southern, criminological science. As Sandra Walklate concluded, “Asian criminology … stands at the positive intersection of the north–south and east–west in terms of geography and culture. It is well placed to think differently, both conceptually and methodologically, about the criminological enterprise, and the debates that such different thinking might generate.” This article reviews the divide in criminology between the Global North and South. Based on the framework of the Asian criminological paradigm, Asian criminology has made major contributions to bridging the divide between the North and the South through academic institutionalization and theoretical development strategies.

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