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In 'Criminology and Marxism: A History of Criminal Selectivity', Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyse crime and punishment through the development of capitalism (15th century to the present) in Europe and the United States. She proposes that the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization show that criminal justice has always been unequal. This unfairness has been necessary, the book argues, for the founding and reproduction of a capitalist society. In a moment in which racial profiling, prosecutorial discretion, and mass incarceration do not find easy answers, Vegh Weis proposes to recover Marx and Engels to identify socio-economic and historic patterns of crime and punishment to suggest transformative changes to criminal justice

El artículo se posiciona desde las criminologías verde y azul para analizar la problemática de la pesca ilegal en la Argentina. Con base en el estudio de instrumentos normativos y entrevistas, el estudio aborda el rol de la Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA) dentro de la zona económica exclusiva (ZEE) y más allá de la milla 200 frente al accionar pesquero lesivo por parte de buques extranjeros. Por un lado, el artículo se enfoca en el uso del derecho penal como instrumento de control de la pesca ilegal, poniendo de sobresalto las problemáticas y limitaciones de este abordaje. Por otro lado, el estudio se enfoca en el trabajo de la PNA en búsqueda de soluciones no punitivas. Principalmente, se analizan la intervención de esta agencia de seguridad en el caso Huali 8 identificado por la PNA como un "cambio de paradigma" en el control de la pesca ilegal dentro de la ZEE y el trabajo intersectorial e interdisciplinario como respuesta no punitiva para la pesca no reglamentada en el espacio marítimo más allá de la milla 200. En su conjunto, desde el paradigma crítico de las criminologías verde y azul, este artículo busca poner el foco en el Sur global y en como una de las agencias destinadas a ejercer poder punitivo buscó explorar cauces de acción alternativos, priorizando el cuidado del medio acuático sin necesidad de más pena.

This article addresses the origins of the term lawfare, as well as different definitions developed in the Global North and the Global South while proposing a conceptualization linked to the particularities of this socio-legal phenomenon in Latin America. Focusing on the cases of Brazil and Argentina the article deploys the notions of phycological, judicial and media warfare to analyze the different dimensions that an analysis of lawfare opens in relation to democracy, the penal system, and mainstream media. The article also explores different dimensions of lawfare and a notion in Spanish with the potential to replace the anglicism: dripping coup (golpe por goteo). Finally, the article proposes different measures to counteract lawfare in the judicial, educational, media, and social spheres. In particular, the conclusions refer to the relevance of social movements in what can be conceptualized as a "cautionary popular criminology".

The core claim of this article is that critical criminology offers us an especially potent framework for interpreting state-corporate crime with the health care industry in the United States as one illustrative case, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The unprecedented, surreal pandemic crisis that surfaced in 2020 brought into especially sharp relief many of the core claims of critical criminology in relation to domination, inequality and injustice within a contemporary capitalist political economy, while it also raised the need to broaden critical criminology studies to incorporate the specificities of the health care systems and the pharmaceutical industry. Following this challenge, the article proposes to foster a "critical health criminology" within state-corporate crime research. To do so, this article explores the "big picture" in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and reveals how it can be understood as a criminological phenomenon. Such a project incorporates the identification of some conceptual issues requiring attention in relation to advancing an enriched form of criminological analysis in these times, and toward building a foundation for a more fully realized twenty-first century criminology.

In The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South , Zaffaroni, Caamaño and Vegh Weis offer an account of the misuse of the law to criminalize progressive political leaders in Latin America. Indeed, more and more popular political leaders in the region end up imprisoned or persecuted, even while in power. Inacio Lula da Silva, former President of Brazil and author of the preface, is the quintaessential case of this worrying process. Despite the centrality of this juridical-political phenomenon in Latin America, it is hardly known to the Anglo-Saxon public. This book seeks to fill this gap. In an accessible style, the authors deconstruct the judicial language and the main problematics of lawfare, calling attention to the fact that it might end up demolishing the rule of law for the sake of fostering the most cruel forms of neoliberalism