“…Therefore, this allows scope for effective, non‐legal ways to deal with it, which emanates from the diverse socio‐cultural traditions and demographies of the Southern and Asian societies (Liu, 2009; Thakre & Jaishankar, 2018). This has been substantiated in our field experiences in India as well as empirical work linking social control and greater tolerance of, and resistance to, deviance in the Southern communities (Jang, 2002; Khan, Unnithan & Dassi, 2007; Newman, 2008; Wardak, 2019; Zaidi, Couture‐Carron & Maticka‐Tyndale, 2016). The criminal justice systems and JJSs in the Global South, however, are based on a Northern construction of crime which locates deviance within a legal framework and allows little scope for non‐legal ways of dealing with the so‐called deviants.…”