Ghost Criminology

The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Herausgeber: Fiddler, Michael; Linnemann, Travis; Kindynis, Theo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory and methodology of a nascent ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshaled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a book attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines-the spectral, hauntological, apparitional. Each of the writers assembled here shares, as Mark Fisher (2017) put it, a fascination for the outside, "that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience." As such, this collection uses cutting-edge social and cultural theory to tangle with some of criminology's most stubborn revenants-the politics of criminalization, the commodification of crime and violence, the haunting power of the image, as well as the unheard and disregarded cries of the dead"--

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Produktdetails

• Alternative Criminology
• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781479842438
• ISBN-10: 1479842435
• Artikelnr.: 61485209

Autorenporträt

Michael Fiddler (Editor) Michael Fiddler is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Greenwich. He is the co-author of Sex and Crime. Theo Kindynis (Editor) Theo Kindynis is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Travis Linnemann (Editor) Travis Linnemann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kansas State University. He is the author of Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power and is co-editor of Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment.