Violence, Crime, and Inequalities. Contexts, Policies, and Processes in the Current Forms of Social Regulation of Violence in the Global South and North
Language: English and Spanish
This session focuses on the connection between violence and social inequalities within social processes that intersect with criminal justice institutions and their porous boundaries and beyond. From crime prevention debates to contemporary updates on broader social control dynamics within policing, we see a range of inquiries focusing on how violence is socially regulated in ways that overlap, connect, and clash with the criminal justice system. These processes establish diverse relationships between violence and social inequality, not only from an economic perspective but also socially through an intersectional lens that includes issues like racism, sexism, and emerging environmental inequalities. This session aims to create a space for reflection and exchange on these processes in contexts from the global south and north. We seek contributions that highlight the specificities and continuities that comparisons between different global experiences can reveal about how violence regulation and inequality intersect, by notions like marginality, vulnerability, racism, xenophobia, or gender inequality.
We welcome contributions exploring
- Connections between social policies and regulation of violence, focusing on crime prevention or criminal justice.
- Policing and the construction of vulnerability.
- Social perceptions and public debates on the link between inequalities and violence.
- The intersection of inequality and violence in specific historical contexts or among particular groups, such as marginalized youth, immigrants, women, or sex-gender diversities, and racially discriminated groups.
- New approaches to social regulation of crime and their relationship with social inequalities.