Ghost criminology: the afterlife of crime and punishment
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide -- Part I. Apparitions and the (In)visible -- 1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic Sensibility -- 2. Ghost Method -- 3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice a...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
New York University Press
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide -- Part I. Apparitions and the (In)visible -- 1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic Sensibility -- 2. Ghost Method -- 3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead Body of US Racialized Politics -- 4. From Optograms to X-Rays: How to Conjure a Spectral Criminological Image -- Part II. The Necrotic and (In)corporeal -- 5. (Dis)Posing of "Toxic Necro-Waste": Managing Unwanted Ghosts -- 6. Destroyed Records -- 7. Police: The Weird and Eerie -- 8. "Dripping from Head to Toe with Blood": Suffocation, Tentacles, Police, and Capital -- Part III. Dead and Haunted Spaces -- 9. The Time of Ghosts: Sites of Violence, Environments of Memory -- 10. Dark Diffractions: A Performative Hauntology of 10 Rillington Place -- 11. Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Cheap Motel Rooms and Transgression -- 12. Excavating Ghosts: Urban Exploration as Graffiti Archaeology -- Ghost Criminology: A Requiem -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index. "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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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (365 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781479870493 9781479848935 |