Criminological discourses among people of African descent globally continue to suffer from a crisis of application of Western explanatory frameworks with gross implications on the development of African centered epistemologies and frameworks. One of the central arguments in this paper is that criminological discourses, specifically on class-specific, racialized-gendered identities of incarcerated women, are not free of the colonial matrices of power that underpin imperialism. What will emerge in this article is that incarcerated women’s identities should be reconstructed as women’s criminalization continues to be framed and presented in monolithic law and order ways. A focus on reconstruction is important to decolonize women’s imprisonment by imperialist white supremacist particularly focusing on how their pluralistic identities, which often collude and collide, shape their trajectories in unpredictable and criss-crossing ways to subject them to criminalization. An analysis of case studies presented in this paper will reveal how women’s experiences of womanhood are shaped by race, gender and class which produce different forms of subjectivities and embodied selves. Reimagining such identities from a lens of the coloniality of being therefore seeks to move away from single-strand criminological discourses which fail to capture the subtle social forms of oppression and resistance. The underlying question therefore is how can incarcerated women’s identities be reconstructed to challenge the hegemony of the western canon in criminology? The paper is organised into four sections. A case for re-imagining incarcerated women’s identities is made. The second theme, coloniality of being as a conceptual framework, is introduced as an overarching framework. Being one of the pillars of the decolonial epistemic perspective, the coloniality of being frames the black women’s lived experiences in institutional settings. The paper concludes by making a case for rethinking of dominant criminological discourses in order to shift the bio-graphy of knowledge in criminology in Africa. We recommend the abolition of the colonial and apartheid fetish of prisons for women and men in South Africa.

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从监狱废奴主义的角度去殖民被监禁妇女的身份

在全球范围内，非洲人后裔的犯罪学话语继续遭受应用西方解释性框架的危机的困扰，这对以非洲为中心的认识论和框架的发展产生了重大影响。本文的中心论点之一是，犯罪学的论述，特别是关于被关押妇女的阶级特定，种族化的性别认同的论述，并非没有摆脱帝国主义基础的殖民权力矩阵。在本文中将出现的是，随着继续以整体法律和秩序的方式来构架和展示妇女的犯罪行为，应当重建被囚禁的妇女的身份。重视重建对于帝国主义白人至上主义者将妇女的非殖民化非殖民化尤为重要，尤其要关注她们的多元身份，它们经常相互勾结和碰撞，以无法预测和交叉的方式塑造他们的轨迹，使他们受到刑事定罪。通过对本文中的案例研究进行分析，可以揭示出妇女的女性经历是如何由种族，性别和阶级形成的，这些种族，性别和阶级产生了不同形式的主观性和具体化的自我。因此，从存在的殖民地的角度重新构想这种身份，试图摆脱单线犯罪学话语，而这种话语无法捕捉到压迫和抵抗的微妙社会形式。因此，潜在的问题是如何重构被囚禁的女性身份，以挑战犯罪学中西方经典的霸权？本文分为四个部分。提出了重新想象被监禁妇女身份的理由。第二个主题 作为概念框架的存在性被引入作为总体框架。作为殖民主义认识论观点的支柱之一，被殖民者构成了黑人妇女在制度环境中的生活经历。最后，本文提出了重新思考主流犯罪学话语的理由，以转移非洲犯罪学知识的传记。我们建议废除南非男女监狱的殖民和种族隔离。最后，本文为重新思考主流犯罪学话语提供了依据，以改变非洲犯罪学知识的传记。我们建议废除南非男女监狱的殖民和种族隔离。最后，本文为重新思考主流犯罪学话语提供了依据，以改变非洲犯罪学知识的传记。我们建议废除南非男女监狱的殖民和种族隔离。