Emotions and Crime: Towards a Criminology of Emotions

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
	On the emotionality of crime
	Why crime and emotions? Why not?
	Part 1: Crime and emotions
	Part 2: Punishment and emotions
	Part 3: Doing criminology as emotion work
PART 1: Crime and emotions
	1. Male violence against women in intimate relationships: The contribution of stress and male peer support
		Introduction
		Definition of violence against women
		Stress, male peer support and violence against women
		Conclusion
		References
	2. The role of emotions for female co-offenders
		Introduction
		‘Malestream’ criminology and rationality – the absence of emotions
		Emotions, pathways into crime and continued motivations to offend
		Emotions and the preoccupation with ‘choice’
		Conclusion – moving forward
		Note
		References
	3. American self-radicalising terrorists and conversions to radical action: Emotional factors and the allure of ‘jihadi cool/chic’
		Introduction
		McCauley and Moskalenko’s twelve pathways to radicalisation
		The rhetorics of ‘jihadi cool’ or ‘jihadi chic’
		Analysing the rhetorical mechanics of ‘jihadi cool’
		Colleen LaRose: from abused victim to ‘Jihad Jane’
		The Tsarnaev Brothers: from ideal immigrants to the ‘Boston Marathon
Bombers’
		Omar Mateen: from misfit to ‘Orlando Night Club Killer’
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	4. ‘Violence is difficult, not easy’: The emotion dynamics of mass atrocities
		Introduction: The salience of emotions
		Emotions and atrocity crimes: from absence to presence
		Why violence is difficult: confrontational tensions and fear
		Emotional dynamics of dominance and humiliation
		Vengeance and revenge mechanisms
		Emotions as intrinsic rewards of violent atrocities
		Conclusion: a cautious note
		Notes
		References
PART 2: Punishment and emotions
	5. ‘Forty-five colour photographs’: Images, emotions and the victim of domestic violence
		Introduction
		Forty-five colour photographs – Stephanie’s story
		Emotions of the image of violence
		Controlling emotion/controlling victims
		Making the victim/making the image
		The wilful victim
		Closing arguments
		Notes
		References
	6. Punitiveness and the emotions of punishment: Between solidarity and hostility
		Introduction
		The problem with rationalist understandings of punishment
		The role of emotions in recent criminological scholarship
		A return to emotions via the rise of punitiveness
		The emotions of punishment in criminal justice: lessons from sociology and social psychology
		The emotions of punishment beyond criminal justice: the psychology of justice and the politics of hostility
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	7. Capital punishment and the emotional public sphere in midtwentieth century Britain
		Introduction: capital punishment and emotion
		The emotional public sphere
		Capital punishment in mid-twentieth century Britain
		Derek Bentley
		Ruth Ellis
		The limits of the emotional public sphere
		Mahmood Mattan
		Conclusion: emotion, criminology and politics of feeling
		Notes
		References
PART 3: Doing criminology as emotion work
	8. Prison life as ‘emotion culture’: Reflections on some of the emotional challenges of conducting prison ethnography
		Introduction
		Four approaches to prison research
		Ethnographic experiences of prison life
		Prison life as ‘emotion culture’
		Emotion work among prison guards
		Emotional, methodological and moral challenges of prison ethnography
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	9. Witnessing, responsibility and spectatorship in the aftermath of violence: Reflections from Srebrenica
		Introduction
		Spectators of suffering, mass media and complicity
		The Bosnian War and the fall of Srebrenica
		The aftermath of Srebrenica: 11 July 2015
		Beyond spectatorship and towards witnessing
		Conclusion
		References
	10. Death justice: Navigating contested death in the digital age
		Introduction: Death duty
		The contingent politics of the dead and their visibility
		Coroners, bereavement and criminologies of the dead
		Bereavement stories
		Death and databases
		Conclusion: the sting of death
		References
	11. ‘Feeling criminology’: Learning from emotions in criminological research
		Introduction
		Positioning emotions as intellectual resources: the how
		The potential impacts of using emotions in criminological research: the
what
		Feeling criminology: the why
		Three questions for ‘feeling criminology’
		Conclusions
		Note
		References
	Postscript Concluding thoughts: Some lessons from being
‘liminal’
		By way of an ending?
		Another beginning?
		Living in the global North and working in the global ‘South’: A personal
account
		Conclusion: moving towards an emotional civic criminology
		Note
		References
Index