Abstract

Through a post-colonial criminological lens, this article attempts to evidence the domination of knowledge in criminology of Crimes of the powerful in the Global North and Anglo-Saxon countries, and whether this domination translates into an influence of knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in the 21st century. To address this, a Scoping Review search was developed to find research articles focused on Crimes of the powerful globally and in Latin American countries, and a citation analysis is done to specific studies. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied as search strategy. The results evidence the high level of concentration that exists on the production of knowledge of Crimes of the powerful studies in the Global North and Anglo-Saxon countries compared to the Global South and non-Anglo Saxon countries, and also evidences the high level of influence of knowledge that Global North countries have on Latin American studies.