Imaginative Criminology - Of Spaces Past, Present and Future

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, engaging with critically important contemporary issues such as confinement, immigration and border politics. It focuses on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined, looking at spaces of control, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance.

List of contents

Imaginative Criminologies of Space - the spaces of imaginative criminology;
Historical Spaces of Confinement 1: Homes for Indigenous Children in Australia;
Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries;
Creative writing and the imagined spaces of imprisonment;
Border Spaces and Places: the age of the camps;
Imagining spaces of violence and transgression in Vancouver and Northern Ireland;
Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction;
Conclusion.

About the author

Lizzie Seal is Reader in Criminology at University of Sussex. She researches in the areas of historical and cultural criminology.
Maggie O'Neill is Professor in Sociology at University College Cork. She is an ethnographer who researches in the areas of cultural criminology, critical theory/feminist theory, biographic, participatory and arts based/walking methods, specifically in relation to sex work and (forced) migration.

Summary

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression, control or confinement are lived, portrayed and imagined.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie O'Neill, Maggie ( University College Cork ) O'Neill, Maggie (University College Cork) O'Neill, Lizzie Seal, Lizzie ( University of Sussex ) Seal, Lizzie (University of Sussex) Seal
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781529202731
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-0273-1
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 286 g
• Series: New Horizons in Criminology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology