Mattias De Backer and Lucas Melgaço proudly present the new open access issue of Criminological Encounters, guest edited by Hannah Wilkinson and Teresa Degenhardt "Towards a global criminology of war", containing articles, opinion pieces, a forum on Palestine and Gaza, interviews and an art intervention.
The scope of the issue is identified in the guest editorial by Hannah and Teresa:
"Part of what led us to co-edit this special issue was a shared frustration with watching, often with despair via the images on our social media feeds, as the international laws, treaties and organisations responsible for preventing and responding to such grave breaches of international law and human rights continue to fail through inaction, denial, but also harassment. The active facilitation of violence through the arms trade and political-military involvement in atrocities, or through intelligence gathering (Overton, 2025; Sabbagh and Abdul, 2025), raises many concerns for criminology. Combined with the mass reach of companies and state-corporate interests benefiting from war (Ruggiero, 2007), the weak international frameworks to hold states and corporations accountable contribute to how the environment and ecosystems continue to suffer mass devastation (O’Sullivan and Walters, 2016; White, 2025) - in ways which transgress human-made borders, harming the future of the planet as a whole. (p. 12)"
Read the issue here: https://www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/crimenc/issue/view/10