The global production of knowledge is grossly skewed to the northern Anglophone world (Hogg et al. in International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 6(1), 1–7, 2017; Connell 2007). It should be no surprise therefore that criminology’s origin stories are derivative of northern experiences, yet generalised as universal theories of crime causation. In this article, we argue that the origin stories of criminological theory translated the ‘darker’, ‘hairier’ and ‘muscular’ masculinities of the global south into prototypes of dangerousness. These prototypes were first articulated as scientific claims in the nineteenth century works of Lombroso, but have been refined and embedded in mainstream criminological discourses well into the present, mainly through the quantitative study of social disorganisation, ‘race’ and racialised masculinities as variables in crime causation. The paper concedes that while deeply troubling expressions of violent masculinity exist now and in the past in the global south, it is mistaken to conceive this violence simply as expressions of atavism or social disorganisation associated with a less civilised world. On the contrary, this paper argues that the violence of colonality itself has had, and continues to have, a criminogenic impact on the present.

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解构犯罪学的起源故事

全球知识生产严重偏向于英语国家北部（Hogg 等人，国际犯罪、正义和社会民主杂志，6(1), 1–7, 2017；Connell 2007）。因此，犯罪学的起源故事是北方经验的衍生物，但被概括为犯罪因果关系的普遍理论也就不足为奇了。在本文中，我们认为犯罪学理论的起源故事将全球南方的“阴暗”、“毛茸茸”和“肌肉发达”的男性气质转化为危险的原型。这些原型在 19 世纪龙勃罗梭的著作中首先被阐明为科学主张，但一直被提炼并嵌入主流犯罪学话语中，直到现在，主要是通过对社会解体的定量研究，“种族”和种族化的男性气质作为犯罪因果关系的变量。该论文承认，虽然现在和过去在全球南方都存在着令人深感不安的暴力男性气质的表达，但将这种暴力简单地视为与一个不太文明的世界相关联的返祖主义或社会解体的表达是错误的。相反，本文认为殖民主义本身的暴力已经并且继续对现在产生犯罪影响。