Carla Sepúlveda

• PhD at University of Oxford

‘Southernising criminology’ is a movement that has increasingly been spread across the globe. Scholars from different perspectives and backgrounds have acknowledged its traction and potential. If the rise of Southernising criminology has been widely welcomed in the field of criminology, this does not mean this movement has not been critically asses...

This book introduces the ‘southern criminology’ movement, explores its theoretical, methodological, and philosophical tools, offers analytical accounts on the development of criminological thoughts in marginalised regions, and showcases the cutting edge of criminological research from southern settings. Southernising Criminology is structured into...

Chile has a substantive criminal law strongly influenced by the 19th century codification movement, and 20th century German scholarship. Its criminal procedure, on the other hand, was reformed at the wake of the 21st century, in the context of the regional move towards an accusatorial system, protective of defendants’ rights. Chilean developments h...

Prosecutors play a decisive role in contemporary criminal justice. Their decisions greatly influence the output of the system, as well as the behaviour of other criminal justice institutions. By harnessing the power to filter, select and segment the work of criminal justice, prosecutors provide structure to an otherwise unbalanced field. They thus...