Introduction to Part Two

Part Two aims to continue the project of mining and subverting the consequence of Northern theorising that is embedded in much (feminist) criminology (see Carrington et al., 2017). The authors here make case for broadening the conceptual and the spatial horizons of feminist criminological endeavour by rendering this work more global through the inclusion of voices and understandings from the global South. Its goal is to contribute to lifting the veil on the diversity of women’s experiences of violence and social injustice and the feminist campaigns against these experiences by focussing on the insights and experiences ‘beyond the Northern Hemisphere’. The handbook’s opening chapter made the point that feminism, criminology and social justice need to be appreciated in their global context. This means that beyond ‘seeing’ gender, we must see and seek to understand the diversity of gendered contexts, and experiences and expressions of crime, criminalisation and feminism.