The Southernising Criminology Discussion Group is a student-led initiative that aims to extend criminological horizons outside the Global North, reflecting on distinct patterns and trends of crime, justice and punishment in jurisdictions historically situated at the periphery of knowledge production and theory formation.

This group provides key tools and frameworks to to recenter the epistemological and methodological focus of the discipline, aiming to tackle unequal geopolitical and academic relations of power and representation.

We are delighted to share the Michaelmas 2025 Term Card for the Southernising Criminology Discussion Group, organised at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. The poster is attached, and registration links for each session are below.

🟣 Dr. Azun Candina-Polomer (University of Chile)
To protect and serve being a woman: the incorporation of female police officers into Carabineros de Chile (1962–2005)
📅 21 October 2025 | 4.15–5.30 pm
📍 Seminar room, Centre for Criminology & online
(Co-organised with the Police and Policing Research Discussion Group)
🔗 Register: https://forms.office.com/e/tPeU6W8yD1

🔵 Dr. Erica Babini (Catholic University of Pernambuco & University of Pernambuco)
The decrease of youth incarceration in Brazil – New sensibilities? A framework from the sociology of violence
📅 18 November 2025 | 4.15–5.30 pm
📍 Seminar room, Centre for Criminology & online
🔗 Register: https://forms.office.com/e/NYhXChqdpM

🔴 Dr. SM Rodríguez (LSE)
Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method
📅 2 December 2025 | 4.15–5.30 pm
📍 Seminar room, Centre for Criminology & online
(Co-organised with the Abolitionist Imaginaries and Praxis Discussion Group)
🔗 Register: https://forms.office.com/e/rZW2CdAZ2M

Seminars take the form of a 40-minute presentation by the speaker followed by an audience-led Q&A.

Events are commonly held both in person and via Microsoft Teams. Come in person a few minutes before to have some coffee and southernising nibbles.