Alternative Criminologies

Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Theoretical perspectives
	1 Alternative criminologies: An introduction
		Critical alternative criminologies with and without Marx 1973–2015
		Alternative criminologies as constant critique and new ways of knowing
		The significance of alternative criminologies today
		References
	2 Cultural criminology continued
		Emergence of cultural criminology
		Late modernity and its discontents
		A cultural criminology of and for late modernity
			The immediacy of illicit identity and transgression
			The pervasiveness of power, control and resistance
			The spiralling energy of image and representation
		To be continued …
		Notes
		References
	3 Criminologies of the market
		Origins
		Contemporary developments
		Varieties of evidence
		Looking to the future
		References
	4 Punishment and political economy
		The foundations of the political economy of punishment
		The prison and the factory: punishment as class control
		The limits of the ‘old’ political economy of punishment
		New directions in the political economy of punishment
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
		References
	5 Governing through crime
		Introduction
		Thinking about crime and government
			The American ‘war on crime’ and its consequences
		The rise of the prosecutor politician
			A peculiar institution
			The attorney general and the war on crime
			The death penalty and governors
		Fearing crime and making law
			A history of the idealized citizen subject
			The rise of the crime victim
		Judgment and distrust in the war on crime
		Race, the war on crime, and mass imprisonment
		Governing social institutions through crime
			The family
			Safe schools
			The workplace
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	6 Criminology and consumerism
		Introduction
		Consumerism
			Consumerism and desire
			Consume now!
		Criminology and consumerism
			Misunderstanding and misrepresenting consumerism
			Consumerism and the ‘cultural turn’ in criminology
			The challenge to criminology
		References
	7 Feminist criminologies
		Liberal feminism and criminology
		Standpoint feminism and transgressive feminist criminologies
		Post-feminisms and feminist criminologies
		Intersectionalism and contemporary feminist criminology
		Feminism and victimology
		Southern criminology and globalising the feminist criminological gaze
		Alternative criminologies and the future of feminist criminology
		References
	8 Queering criminology
		Introduction
		Queer as a critique
		Queer criminologies as critical alternative criminologies
		Queering criminology research perspectives
			A noun relating to identity
			A set of theory-destabilising concepts
			To queer – a verb
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	9 The politics of sexuality: Alternative visions of sex and social change
		Sexual regulation and criminology in the twentieth century: a tale of victims, the righting of sexual wrongs and the regulation ...
		Sex and social change: four visions of sex and social change in late modernity
			Sex and liberation
			Sex and consumption
			Law reform and the markets
			Descent into the obscene
		Note
		References
	10 The criminology of mobility
		Overview
		Traces of mobility
		Border sightings
		The migration control industry
		Where is the criminology of mobility heading?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	11 Green criminologies
		Introduction
		Greening the criminological landscape
		Green criminological theories and perspectives
		Power, harm and towards a ‘green justice’
		Conclusion
		References
	12 Cyber-criminologies
		Introduction
		Cyber-criminologies contested
			Traditionalists
			Adaptationists
			The spatial distinctiveness of cyberspace
			The temporal distinctiveness of cyberspace
			Actants’ autonomy and empowerment
			New identities and feelings of anonymity
			New aspects of victimisation
			Transnationality (and the irrelevance of territorial jurisdictions)
			A fluid constant
		What is distinctive about the relationships of cybercrimes to law?
			Defining cyber activities as crime
			First generation: traditional (or ordinary) cybercrimes
			Second generation: hybrid (or adaptive) crimes
			True cybercrimes
		Conclusion
		Glossary
		Notes
		References
Part II Critical issues for the 21st century
	13 Crime and media
		Moral panics in an age of anxiety
		Critical issues
		Understanding media
		Ethics, rhetoric and spectatorship
		Pornography, sexualization and regulation
		Mainstream culture
		Extreme media
		Note
		References
	14 Crime and risk
		Introduction
		Risk and criminal activity
		Crime, risk and control
		Risk and crime control
		The uncertain promise of risk
		Post-risk security and the ‘new terrorism’
		References
	15 The criminal pursuit of serious white-collar crimes
		Introduction
		A short history of the prosecution of serious white-collar crimes in England and Wales
		Fairness in serious fraud prosecutions
		Sentencing
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	16 Hate crimes
		Introduction
		Defining hate crime
		Hate crime victims
		Hate crime perpetrators
		Responding to hate crime
		Conclusion
		References
	17 Criminology and terrorism: Toward a critical approach
		Introduction
		Defining terrorism: problems and issues
		Assessing the terrorist risk: who counts?
		Constructing the ‘new terrorism’: who speaks?
		Countering terrorism: who is targeted?
		Conclusion
		References
	18 Violence against women
		Introduction
		Forms of violence against women
		Men’s violences in relationships
			Partner homicide
			Physical partner violence
			Partner sexual violence
			Psychological abuse by partners
		Men’s violences in the family
			Violence against mothers and grandmothers
			Forced marriage
		‘Honour’-based violence and killings
			Female genital mutilation
			Familial rape and abuse
		Men’s violences against women in public spaces
			Sexual violence and harassment in the workplace
			Street and public space violence
		Stranger and acquaintance rape
		Men’s violences within institutions
			Sexual violence, celebrity culture, and public institutions
			Institutional abuse in residential care
			Violence against women in higher education institutions
		Chapter summary
		References
	19 Atrocity: The Latin American experience
		Contemporary atrocity
		Atrocity crimes: the progress of a concept
		The nature and characteristics of atrocity crimes
		Wars, conflict and extreme violence: the context of atrocity crimes
		The dynamics of atrocity crimes: global, regional and local trajectories
		Actors and strategies
		The paradoxes of state-led atrocity
		The Latin American “justice cascade”: an end to impunity?
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
		Appendix
	20 Crimes against humanity and war crimes
		Introduction
		State massacres and the paradigm-shift in the legal tradition: moving from the notion of state sovereignty to ...
		The atrocities committed by non-state organizations and the new demand for the legal and criminal protection of the peace and ...
		International criminal law and the legal definition of international crimes
		Final considerations
		Notes
		References
	21 The challenge of state crime
		Introduction
		Defining state crime
		The state and organisational deviance
		Human rights
		Civil society
		State crime scholarship
		The International State Crime Initiative
		New directions in research
		Globalisation
		Methodology: challenges and opportunities
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	22 Mass incarceration
		Introduction
		The US incarceration explosion
		‘Mass imprisonment’
		From ‘mass imprisonment’ to ‘mass incarceration’
		Wacquant and ‘hyperincarceration’
		Michelle Alexander: mass incarceration – The New Jim Crow
		The collateral consequences of mass incarceration
		The direct drivers of mass incarceration
		The deeper drivers of mass incarceration
		The prospects of winding back mass incarceration
		Conclusion
		References
	23 Prisoner reentry as myth and ceremony
		1. Slay the chimera of the “Prison Industrial Complex”
		2. Prisoner “reentry” pertains to bureaucratic ceremony and not industrial economy
		3. Post-custodial supervision is a component of prisonfare, which complements workfare and partakes of the ...
		Notes
		References
	24 Towards the global elimination of the death penalty: A cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment
		The roots of the abolitionist movement
		An explosion of abolition
		The human rights message
		The acceptance of international human rights norms
		How strong is the opposition?
		Terrorism: a poor justification for retaining capital punishment
		Conclusion
		Notes
	25 Peculiar institution: America’s death penalty today
		Introduction
		In coming to terms with America’s system of capital punishment we need to answer three explanatory questions
		What does it mean to refer to America’s death penalty as a “peculiar institution”
		The several hundred death penalty decisions handed down since 1976, and the labyrinthine jurisprudence to which they gave rise, can be reduced ...
		References
	26 Desistance: Envisioning futures
		Introduction
		Explaining desistance from crime
			Defining desistance from crime
			Desistance theories and related concepts
		Applications and implications
		Critiques
		Utopia, alternatives and desistance
		Notes
		References
	27 Alternative criminologies, academic markets and corporatism in universities
		Fundamental assumptions
		Marketisation and the growth of National Research Assessment
		Corporatist criminologies defined and their problematic nature exemplified
			Corporatism and research funding
			Corporatism, ‘research impact’ and the integrity of research findings
			Corporatism, publishing impact and academic journals
			Corporatism and ethics committees
		Criminology, corporatism and critique
		Notes
		References
Index