Criminal Legalities in the Global South (ePub)

Pablo Ciocchini is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool in Singapore. He teaches Critical Criminology and Socio-legal Studies. He holds an LLM from the National University of La Plata (Argentina), an MA in the sociology of law from the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain), and a PhD in sociology of law from University of the Basque Country. His articles have been published in Crime, Law and Social Change, Critical Criminology, the International Journal of Law in Context, the Asian Journal of Social Science, among others. He is interested in criminal courts, judicial reforms, police accountability, state violence, and critical socio-legal theory and methodology.

George Radics is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He teaches Law and Society, Selected Topics on Law and Justice, Sociology of Emotions, and Classical Sociological Theory. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the National University of Singapore (NUS), he earned a juris doctor with a concentration in Asian law from the University of Washington and worked for the Supreme Court of Guam for two years. He is a member of the New York Bar. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, Asian Journal of Social Science, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies.