Island Criminology

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Ten percent of the world’s population lives on islands, but until now the place and space characteristics of islands in criminological theory have not been deeply considered. This book moves beyond the question of whether islands have more, or less, crime than other places, and instead addresses issues of how, and by whom, crime is defined in island settings, which crimes are policed and visible, and who is subject to regulation. These questions are informed by ‘the politics of place and belonging’ and the distinctive social networks and normative structures of island communities. Front Cover Half Title Series information Island Criminology Copyright information Table of contents Series Editor Preface About the Authors 1 Introduction I II III IV V VI VII VIII 2 Idylls (and Horrors) Social sciences, space, and place Researching islands Crime fiction Idyll Horror Conclusion 3 Isolation Seeing the Other at the border Island isolation of polluted bodies Island isolation of the criminal body Island self-isolation Conclusion 4 Invasion Island invasions Crime and ‘islanding as erasure’ in settler colonial Australia Creating islands under Australian settler colonialism Echoes of island carcerality in remote Australia Conclusion 5 Integration Localistic versus legalistic policing Colonial transition in the Pacific Gendered violence Case study: policing in the Torres Strait Islands A TSILPO’s story Integration, crime, and island settings Conclusion 6 Insularity The case of Pitcairn Island Insularity brings forth monsters Island insularity and crime Conclusion 7 Industry Green criminology and extractivist capitalism Extractive colonialism in island spaces and places Extractive (neo-)colonialism and the island nation of Nauru Extractive mining, social disorganization, and violence on Bougainville Island Understanding extractivism and crime through a prism of islandness Conclusion: turning towards justice and stewardship 8 Conclusion I II III IV V Notes References Index