This second edition of The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South significantly expands, develops and draws together the rapidly growing research and theory about crime, punishment, security, prisons, policing, gender violence, environmental justice, island justice and justice innovations from, in the spatial and marginal global peripheries. It challenges the hegemonic bias in the production and dissemination of criminological knowledge and covers a huge scope of original research to develop a field of criminological inquiry inclusive of the experiences of the Global South. It includes Indigenous, critical, green, southern, feminist, counter-colonial, post-colonial and de-colonial approaches.

The handbook promotes diverse perspectives to develop concepts and theories that bridge global divides aiming to democratise criminological knowledges. It contains 86 chapters organised into eight themes and features contributions from both emerging and established scholars from around the globe. While colonialism's impacts are most visible in former colonies of the Global South, marginalised communities also exist in the Global North. The handbook, therefore, transcends geographical boundaries by incorporating theories from the margins.

Dr Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti is a critical social scientist, currently based at the University of Bristol, whose research interests lie at the intersections of decolonial theory and feminist activism. Her research explores the politics of violence, the criminalisation of activism, migration, and feminist resistance, with a particular focus on voices and perspectives from the Global South. She is the author of 'A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing' (Routledge, 2020), co-editor for 'Southern Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order' (Bristol University Press, 2023), and co-director of The Feminist Cities Colab.

David Fonseca has a PhD from New York University and has held academic positions across multiple continents, South America, Australia and the United Kingdom. In Brazil, he served in tenured lectureships at Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) and at Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (UFSB). Between 2016 and 2018, he was a lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. In 2024, he joined the School of Law at the University of Sheffield in England, focusing on contemporary challenges in social control, border control and the legacies of colonialism in criminal justice systems. His research interests include the sociology of punishment, mass incarceration, and southern criminology. He serves on the editorial boards of Punishment & Society, the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and Revista Latinamericana de Criminologia, and has published an extensive list of translations of seminal works in critical criminology into Portuguese.

Valeria Vegh Weis, LL.M (NYU), PhD. (UBA), is a Senior Researcher at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, where she studies the role of human rights and victims' organisations in addressing massive human rights violations. She is also a Professor at the Universidad Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Her research has been funded by the Alexander von Humboldt, Fulbright and the European Union, and she has won international awards, including the Choice Award and the Outstanding Book Award. She is the author of more than 10 articles and book chapters on international law, transitional justice criminology and criminal law in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. She has 15 years of experience in criminal courts and international organisations. She is the author of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' Principles of the Politics of Memory for the Americas.

Kerry Carrington is an adjunct professor in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has authored over 150 publications over her 30-year career. She is the co-author of Southern Criminology (2019) and co-editor of the First Edition of The Palgrave Handbook on Criminology and the Global South (2018). She led a world first study on how Argentina’s unique Comisarias de la Mujer (Police Stations for Women) uniquely respond to gender violence. In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia. In 2015, she was recognised as one of Queensland’s best thinkers. She has received two prestigious awards from the American Society of Criminology: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Critical Criminology and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Division of Women and Crime.

Russell Hogg is an honorary professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales. He is the co-author of Southern Criminology (2019) and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook on Criminology and the Global South (2018). He is also co-author (with Kerry Carrington) of Policing the Rural Crisis (2006) and numerous articles and (with David Brown) Rethinking Law and Order (1998) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of crime, justice and criminology. His current research interests primarily relate to punishment, criminalisation, law and order politics, and southern criminology.

John Scott is Head of the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. He has published widely, including 27 books and major research reports and over 100 papers and book chapters. He has also had sustained success in attracting nationally competitive grants and industry funding. In 2025 he won the Australian and New Zealand Criminology Society's Christine M. Alder biannual Book Award with Zoe Staines for Island Criminology. He also co-edits The Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy,  is Vice President of the Asian Criminological Society and was recently a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts