Volume 15, Issue 1 is a special issue Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Oceania guest edited by David Goyes, Nigel South and Antje Deckert.

This special issue examines how colonialism and Western capitalist logic have reshaped Oceania’s societies, knowledge systems, and ecologies, and highlights the need to engage with Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and resisting. It traces how centuries of extractive colonial practices—settler conquest, resource exploitation, scientific appropriation, cultural suppression, and environmental harm—continue to produce injustice, including ecological collapse, dispossession, and threats to survival for Pacific Island communities.

At the same time, the issue foregrounds the resilience and intellectual richness of Oceanic peoples, whose cosmologies, legal traditions, and ecological relationships offer alternative models for living and for green criminology.

Through contributions that explore harms, resistance, and culturally grounded understandings of justice across the region, the collection advances a Southern green criminological perspective that links histories of colonisation to contemporary environmental and social conflicts in Oceania.

The guest editorial is available at https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.4378

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. The Journal is currently indexed in Scopus as a Q1 in the subject category of ‘LAW’. Internationally, the Journal is ranked in the top 50 open access Law journals and is 1st in the Pacific Region.

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John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Rowena Maguire (Editor) and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)