Ghost Criminology - The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment

"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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Edited by Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, and Travis Linnemann

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• Authors: Michael Fiddler, Michael/ Kindynis Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, Travis Linnemann
• Assisted by: Michael Fiddler (Editor), Theo Kindynis (Editor), Travis Linnemann (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781479842438
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-4243-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Alternative Criminology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories