Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Criminology- Criminologies of Genocide: Past and Present, Full Article Submission Deadline- 28 April 2026

Guest Editors:
Leighann Spencer, Rhiannon Bandiera,
Maria Giannacopoulos, Chris Cunneen

The point of departure for this special issue is the continuing genocidal brutality of the Israeli
state against the Palestinian people and their lands. This brutality, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
writes, reveals a “convergence of violence and pleasure” exposing “with its monstrosity, the
local and global ontological politics and dilemmas facing Genocide Studies today”.1 This
dilemma extends beyond Genocide Studies and impacts a range of disciplines, including
criminology.

We encourage critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional approaches across related areas
relevant to understanding colonialism and genocide. For instance, social work, international
relations, law, geography, cultural and archival studies, health, and so forth. We also welcome
analyses that relate to genocide from any part of the world and from the perspectives of
Indigenous and/or First Nations scholars, as well as from scholars from the Global South(s).

Themes:

. Colonialism/settler colonialism and imperialism; state crime; colonial policing and penology

. Bla(c)k, Indigenous and/or First Nations, and global South(s) knowledges; perspectives on (in)justice and resistance

. Femicide; children, babies, and genocide; child protection/child removals; gender and youth (in)justice

. Ecocide; extraction/expropriation/theft, climate collapse

. Criminologies of public health and genocide; dis/ableist and anti-ableist critiques; disability (in)justice

· Intersectional critiques; race; gender; queer; dis/ableist and anti-ableist and eco-centric perspectives.

. Epistemicide; scholasticide; institutional censorship, responses to campus protests, and institutional links to the military industrial complex

. Teaching genocide in criminology; critiques of administrative/state-centred criminologies

· Media complicity; propaganda; genocide denialism

. States, corporations, and the symbiotic relations in the production of genocide

. Nomocide; critiques of international (criminal) law, the international legal system, and/or legal concepts;

. Intersections between genocide and war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid, and/or human rights environmental crime and/or harm; green criminology;

Timeline:
Full Article 28 April 2026*
Peer Review 4 – 25 May 2026
Revisions 15 July 2026
Publication December 2026

Due to the significance and urgency of criminological responses to genocide in the current
political climate, the publication of this special issue is being fast-tracked. In order to ensure
the publication process is completed on time, these deadlines cannot be altered.

Submission:
Please refer to the journal’s Submission Guidelines and submit your manuscript in full online
via Sage Track. You can also email N4ADAC@outlook.com with any queries.