CFP: Abolish Criminology (Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group)

Abolish Criminology (Contracted with Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group)   Edited by Nishaun T. Battle, Michael J. Coyle, Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Jason M. Williams    Call for Papers 

Abolish Criminology is a volume that will provide context, abolitionist critiques and deconstructions of criminology’s dominant theories and schools of thought. The volume will also provide space to document the inception and progression of key abolitionist theoretical developments while setting the agenda for more creative directions than dominant and emerging theories and practices in Criminology have done. This will manifest through a collection of new and emerging schools of thought and theories that counter and challenge criminology’s violently constructed conceptions of human nature, society, crime, law and justice.

The volume will also center and highlight the impact of criminology’s thought on society and disenfranchised communities through a collection of writings by those most directly affected and impacted by the practices directly associated with criminology’s theories as they manifest through policy.

Abolish Criminology has a three part organizing philosophy:

1.Direct theoretical engagement with the dominant paradigms in Criminology. The purpose of these chapters is to deconstruct, through an abolitionist lens, the basic premises of criminology as a discipline and to document the policies, practices and cultures that criminology has imposed and legitimized.

2.Direct engagement with those most impacted by the criminal justice system. These include chapters authored by imprisoned or formerly imprisoned people, as well as chapters written by families and loved ones of those most directly impacted. We also seek chapters written by those who live within communities and nations most directly impacted by the punishing praxis of the criminal justice system’s colonizing institutions.

3.Direct engagement with communities and community organizations participating in abolitionist organizing, as well as communities most affected by and most vulnerable to the criminal justice system’s policies and practices. This includes chapters authored by members of abolitionist organizations around the world.  

Abolish Criminology will be an interdisciplinary collection that includes authors and scholars from within and beyond the academy. For those publishing through academic affiliations we invite writings by authors who can represent teachings from marginalized disciplines cutting across the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. These include: Black/Indigenous/Global South/Migrant Feminism, Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, Anti-colonial American Studies and/or History and/or Philosophy and/or Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Black Criminology, Counter-colonial Criminology, Indigenous Criminology, Indigenous-led Archaeology and Museum Studies, Anti-colonial Visual and Cultural Criminology, Green Criminology and so on. Through this diversity of lenses and perspectives we aim to produce a thorough interrogation of criminology’s relationship to white supremacist, heteropatriarchal and imperialist/capitalist institutions, cultures, policies and practices while at the same time documenting and highlighting emerging and interventionist ‘criminologies’ that directly engage with and confront criminal justice violence and oppression in direct opposition to criminology’s power.  

ABSTRACTS: DUE August 1, 2019 to [email protected] (or below address) Abstracts should be in the range of 400-500 words (please do not submit less) and must be accompanied by a brief biography [1]. Early submissions are welcome. We encourage submissions from people who are/have been in prison (or punitively victimized), community organizers, community members, youths, graduate students, activist-scholars as well as junior and senior academics. Invitations to submit a paper will be based on a review of the abstracts received by the due date. As Editors we welcome a rich diversity of abstracts and, if deemed appropriate, promise further labor to ensure all abstracts that meet the submission criteria and cannot be included are helped to reach a publication outlet.  

PAPERS: DUE December 1, 2019 to [email protected] (or below address) Papers must contain original and unpublished work, and be in the range of 5,000-6,000 words (inclusive of bibliography, and any and all other materials). Written to appeal to activists, community organizers, practitioners, students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, papers should be straightforward, user-friendly, jargon free, and prepared in accord with Routledge guidelines for authors, i.e. they must follow the manuscript preparation, editorial style, and conventions (references, bibliography, etc.) per the publisher: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Author%2BGuidelines%2B2019.pdf  

PEER REVIEW PROCESS: January 1 to December 1, 2020 Each paper will receive three reviews from authors publishing in the volume, and when appropriate, peer reviewers beyond the collective of authors Abolish Criminology will form. This will achieve two things: one, increase the quality of all authors’ chapters, and two, allow authors to (as they revise and prepare final drafts of their own work) develop and nuance their arguments in some sense with an understanding to the other works in the volume. The Editors will work to, as much as possible, match authors and reviewers toward strengthening all works. To ensure on-time manuscript delivery, a critical value to the Editors, this work will be expected in a timely fashion.   FINAL STAGES: •Full Manuscript Submitted to Publisher: January 1, 2021. •Expected Publication is Summer 2021. All Inquiries and Communication to [email protected] (or below address) Please send all inquiries and communication regarding Abolish Criminology directly to the Editors at [email protected] (and NOT at individual Editors’ email addresses).  

Postal Address: The Editors, Abolish Criminology CARE OF: Professor Michael J. Coyle Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice California State University, Chico 400 West 1st Street Chico, CA, 95926-0455, U.S.A.   ____________________________________________________________________________ INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD EMAIL [email protected] FOR THE FULL “CALL FOR PAPERS” ____________________________________________________________________________     [1] The Editors ask for a Curriculum Vita (resume) or a brief description (300-500 words) of the author’s background and work to ensure the volume represents a diversity of voices and experiences.