USA Africa Dialogue Series - Speaker event

Dear Colleagues,

You and your students are cordially invited to this event on 10/20 at 5pm in MCB 566 and also on Zoom. There will be light refreshment for those who can make it in person:

Dr. Juan Marcellus Tauri, Member of the Ngati Porou Tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand,

Senior Scholar in Law and Indigenous Studies at The University of Auckland, New Zealand

 

Thursday October 20, 5PM to 6 PM (9-10 AM in NZ); MCB 566 (Join Zoom Meeting

https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81990171960 Meeting ID: 819 9017 1960):

 

ETHICAL CODES IN CRIMINOLOGY

 

Abstract:

The Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology acknowledges that its own Code of Ethics is based on the versions issued by the American Society of Criminology and the British Society of Criminology. We critique the lack of indigenous ethics in the focus on the ANZSOC version of the settler-colonial code of ethics and explore its ethical lacks in order to alert criminologists to the need for more ethical vigilance in the efforts to further decolonize research methodology. We will start with the unethical requirement that criminologists must maintain "a good relationship with all funding agencies", and we warn that some funding agencies are so contrary to good ethics that criminologists should avoid them rather than seek good relationships with them. We will argue that lack of funding does not indicate the lack of worth in the search for knowledge, and we will add that when funding is available for the study of indigenous people, women, or working-class people (for example), criminologists from those particular backgrounds should be required to lead such research projects in order to help check the imperialist reason of criminology that is essentially unethical by definition. As indigenous researchers have warned, Ethical Review Boards in universities do not provide sufficient checks for ethical breaches without the informed consent of Indigenous Communities Ethical Review Boards and without the acceptance of the perspectives of the colonized, which we can agree are of equal validity to, if not more valid than, those of scholars steeped in biases inherent to imperialist/ethnocentric scholarship. The marginalization of critical racialized, gendered and indigenous perspectives in criminology will be used to explain the frequencies of ethical breaches in the discipline.

 

Sponsored by the International Initiatives Small Grants (IISG), by Department of Sociology and by American Indian Native Studies