Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton.Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton. He was President of the British Society for Criminology 2015–2019.Zoha Waseem is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Warwick.

• 1. Introduction: Southern and Post-Colonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order - Peter Squires, Roxana Cavalcanti and Zoha WaseemPart 1: Policing, Law, and Violent Legacies2. Asymmetric Policing at a Distance? Frontiers, law and disorder in the weaponised South - Peter Squires3. 'From Overseer to Officer: A Brief History of British Policing through Afro-Diasporic Music Culture’ - Lambros Fatsis4. Police Violence, Anti-Police Protest Movements and the Challenge of Decolonialism - Chris Cunneen5. Crossing Red Lines: Exploring the Criminalisation and Policing of Sedition and Dissent in Pakistan - Ammar Ali Jan and Zoha WaseemPart 2: Southern Institutions and Criminal Justice Politics6. Reform, Restructure and Rebrand: Cursory Solutions to Historically Entrenched Policing Problems - Danielle Watson, Nathan W. Pino and Casandra Harry7. Democratic Policing in Authoritarian Structures. Policing models and the exercise of authority in São Paulo, Brazil - Viviane de Oliveira Cubas, Frederico Castelo Branco and André Rodrigues Oliveira 8. Rioting Struggles in Brazil: Prison Gangs, Staff and Criminal Justice Hegemony - Vitor Dieter 9. The Political Economy of Punishment in the Global Periphery: Incarceration and Discipline in Brazilian Prisons - Luiz dal SantoPart 3: Southern Narratives and Experiences - Culture, Resistance and Justice10. Colonial Violence, Contemporary Conflict and Socio-Ecological Renewal: Analysis from Bougainville - Blaise Iruinu and Kristian Lasslett 11. Exploring the Moving Lines of the “Global South”: Citizenship and Political Participation in a Rio de Janeiro Favela - Elizabete Ribeiro Albernaz 12. Social Mobilization and Victims of Violence: Emotional Responses to Justice in an Urban Periphery - Valéria Cristina de Oliveira and Jaqueline Garza Placencia13. Women, Peace, Security and Justice: A Postcolonial Feminist Critical Review - Giovana Esther Zucatto Part 4: Conflicts, Criminalisation, and Process in the Neo-Liberal Internationalism14. The Contemporary Criminalisation of Activists: Insights from Latin America - Roxana Cavalcanti, Israel Celi and Simone Gomes15. Framing Human Insecurity Between Dispossession and Difference - Guilherme Benzaquen and Pedro Borba16. Private Military Force in the Global South: Mozambique and Southern Africa - John Lea17. Distant Conflicts, Southern Deaths: The Trials of Neo-Liberal internationalism in ‘Southern Nowhere’ - Peter Squires18. Conclusion/Afterword - Roxana Cavalcanti, Zoha Waseem and Peter Squires

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