The roundtable is case study driven. Participants take a historical criminology approach, exploring themes of coloniality and critical race concerns. These are logics enabling exploration of the epistemic inequalities in which criminology, having been historically complicit, now seeks to rectify. Consistent with conference themes, participants explore concerns with absent voices and epistemic expansions, critical to contemporary criminology.

Miller takes a Critical Race approach, exploring the uniquely adverse experience of racialization occurring within the early modern Canadian context. Within this history, racialization normalized Black youth’s legislation out of education, even as education generally came to represent an important resource, for actualizing youth’s transformative potential. Did denial indict Black youth as intractable, deviant outsiders?

Watkins explores the life-courses of former convicts who died in the Charitable system within the penal colonial context of Tasmania. Through investigating their life-courses at the micro level, alongside the institutional meso level, and the political economic macro level, it is possible to consider the interaction of structural constraints and individual agency.

Alghrani explores the pathways of girls in and out of Juvenile institutions established in the Victorian period. The institutions served a critical role in the reform and disciplining of ‘criminal’ and ‘at risk’ girls and are significant as they embedded the foundation of penal and care institutions for girls in the Twentieth century.

Cleghorn explores the colonial (post-slavery to pre-independence) penal system in Trinidad and Tobago. Through investigating the colonial penal practices and punishment, it uncovers how these dynamics have contributed to the present-day outlook and function of the penal sector and responses to criminality.