Neo-Colonial Criminology 10 Years On: The Silence Continues

The same data collection process was then applied to the topics ‘African Americans in the criminal legal context’ and ‘Hispanic Americans in the criminal legal context’, as these are the social groups also hyperincarcerated in the four countries.7 For these populations, the search of the title, abstract, keywords and full text used the following terms: ‘African- African OR African American’, ‘Blac. [...] Two journals changed their name; that is, from the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology to the Journal of Criminology and from the International Journal of the Sociology of Law to The International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. [...] Discussion This study set out to quantify the discourse on ‘Indigenous peoples in the criminal legal context’ in elite mainstream criminology journals published over the decade of 2011 to 2020 to ascertain whether the recent surge in decolonial dialogue (Moosavi 2020) has led to a surge in the discourse on ‘Indigenous peoples in the criminal legal context of settler-colonial societies’ in high-ran. [...] While the publication-to-incarceration- rate ratio has slightly improved for Māori, this increase is afforded to both the slight decrease in the incarceration rate compared to the previous decade and the slight increase in the number of publications, from 5 to 7 in total. [...] The current frequency of discourse on Indigenous peoples in the criminal legal context of Australia, NZ, Canada and the US—or better, the lack thereof—suggests that the dominant view in elite mainstream criminology is that the hyperincarceration of First Nations peoples is not as problematic as the general ‘crime problem’.