Social Control of Crime in Asia

Zhong, Hua; Zhang, Serena Yunran

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.623

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“…Recent literature review has pointed out that Asian criminologists have started to develop new theories (Zhong & Zhang, 2021). These include "Theory of relational justice" (Liu, 2014a), "Asian paradigm theory" (Liu, 2014b;2016), "Relational theory" (Liu, 2017b), and "Relationism theory" (Liu, 2021b).…”

Section: The Current State Of Criminal Justice Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: The Current State Of Criminal Justice Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift

Liu

2024

Asian J Criminol

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“…Compared with Western criminologists, Southern criminologists may be more willing to consider the importance of religion in relation to crime, because spirituality and the supernatural have strong importance in non-Western societies (Cross 2018; Moosavi 2019b). In addition, regarding social control models, “cultivated by different civilizations”, Asian societies have offered distinctive and indispensable evidence that helped to comprehend and improve the social control models developed from Western societies, such as the transformation of Situational Action Theory and Institutional Anomie Theory (Messner 2015; Zhong and Zhang 2021).…”

Section: The Divide In Criminology Between the West And Non-west Or T...mentioning

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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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“…Data show that crime and criminal justice research in Asia has increased rapidly since the ACS was founded (Belknap 2016;Liu 2022a). International scholars have witnessed the growth of Asian criminology over the past years (Belknap 2016;Carrington 2017;Zhong and Zhang 2021), which is evident in the growing empirical literature on criminological theories, with increasing numbers of literature originating from Asia (Antonaccio and Botchkovar 2015;Hebenton and Jou 2013;Suzuki et al 2018).…”

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“…The purpose of the justice system is to heal society, provide compensation and restore harmony in social relations' (Liu 2017). Based on this hypothesis, Asian criminologists have started to develop new theories (Zhong and Zhang 2021). A theory of relational justice was proposed with the mission of examining the criminal justice systems of Western and Asian societies from a cross-cultural perspective and systematically explaining the different concepts of justice.…”

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The Theoretical Contributions of Asian Criminology in Reconstructing Criminology

Yu,

Liu

2023

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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A recent primary development in criminology is a growing recognition that there has been Western domination in knowledge production and dissemination. The imbalance of knowledge in criminology is a significant weakness of the discipline. Prominent scholars have called for the decolonisation of criminological knowledge to correct this bias. Asian criminology and Southern criminology are the latest developments and promising forces in decolonising criminology (Liu 2018; Moosavi 2018). One of Asian criminology’s exceptional contributions to the current decolonisation movement is its significant theoretical achievements. This paper reviews theoretical efforts in Asian criminology and the theoretical innovation of the theoretical works, particularly those developed by Liu (Liu 2014; 2016; 2017; 2021a; 2022; 2023). It shows how theory development in criminology can gain insights from observations based on Asian contexts. The paper provides an update on these developments and their contributions to the reconstruction of criminology.

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Social Control of Crime in Asia

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The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift

The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift

Asian Criminology: Its Contribution in Linking Global North and South

The Theoretical Contributions of Asian Criminology in Reconstructing Criminology

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