Rosa del Olmo Prize Introductory Essay David Goyes

In the early 1970s she joined the wave of ‘new’ criminological thinking and critique that was underway, meeting key figures in the US such as Richard Quinney and members of the Berkeley School, making connections with the National Deviancy Conference in the UK, and attending the inaugural meeting of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control in Florence in 1973. [...] The paper itself was eventually published in 1981 in a special issue of Crime and Social Justice on ‘Law and order in the 1980’s: The rise of the Right’, but only after this dismaying series of events which the Editors (1981) recount, based on a cover letter that accompanied the article: Encinoza explains that when an advance copy of their paper was sent to the United Nations in New York, they rec. [...] The Rosa del Olmo Prize In early 2023 the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy editorial team established the Rosa del Olmo Prize to be awarded biennially for the article(s) that, in the editors’ opinion and based on the recommendations of a panel of experts, most contributes to innovative thinking in the development of criminology beyond Western scripts. [...] The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy celebrates the inaugural winner of the Rosa Del Olmo Prize: Marya Al-Hindi, author of Criminalising Palestinians: History and Borders in the Construction of the Palestinian Threat 12(2): 36-46. [...] The main argument of this theoretical research is that the border-making process, concretised with the ‘security wall’ contributes to the deepening of the image of the Arab as threat.