‘The Earth is one but the world is not’: Criminological theory and its geopolitical divisions

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-20

  Aas, Katja Franko ^a  

^a Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law   (Norway)

Author keywords

criminological theory; globalization; knowledge production; social science; space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857755176     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: 14617439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480611433433     Document Type: Article

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