The Emergence of a Pacific Criminology

Guest editors Moses Faleolo (Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Miranda Forsyth (The Australian National University, Australia) have curated a set of articles from the inaugural symposium on Pacific Criminology and this special issue is the first collection to emerge under the banner of Pacific criminology.

Pacific criminology is an alternative way of criminological theorisation that simultaneously draws upon other criminological epistemologies but is also transcendentally distinctive and unique. The issue comprises nine articles and contributors include both Pacific Islanders and scholars from other regions: Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. An Epilogue from Tuivalu Lauganiu and Tamasailau-Suaali'i-Sauni includes a wonderful poem - and the guest editors remind us that:

It is exciting to be part of a Pacific criminology movement and its potentiality can do many things like the radical rethinking of the criminal justice system and the cultivation of intergenerational, interdisciplinary, intercultural, inter-legal and intersectional conversations. (Guest Editorial V13[1] 2024)

Guest Editorial Volume 13(3) 2024 https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.3663