Liquid Criminology: Doing imaginative criminological research

Liquid Criminology- Front Cover
Liquid Criminology
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: introducing ‘liquid criminology’
	Why ‘liquid criminology’?
	Re-considering criminology in an age of liquidity
	About this book: intent and content
	References
PART I: Using conventional methods imaginatively
Chapter 1: Doing imaginative criminology
	Introduction
	The promise of imaginative criminology
	The practice of imaginative criminology
	Doing imaginative criminology: a glimpse of ‘imaginary penalities’
	Doing imaginative criminology: a glimpse of reparative justice
	The tradition of imaginative criminology
	References
Chapter 2: Using crime surveys as tools of critical insight and progressive change
	Introduction
	The strengths and limitations of mainstream survey research
	Using surveys to buttress the critical criminological imagination
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 3: ‘Snitches get stitches’?: telling tales on homicide detectives
	Introduction to the killing fields of downtown DC
	Common cultures?
	Getting up close to murder
	Hanging out waiting for someone to die
	Is the police cultural world really as it seems to be?
	But is police culture what it seems to me? Reflecting on trust, ethics and ambiguities of ethnography
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 4: Forensic criminology as a research problem: using traditional processes in a forensic context
	Introduction
	What is ‘forensic criminology’?
	Evolution, revolution or history repeating itself?
	The forensic criminologist: generalist or specialist?
	Areas of application
	Methodology
	Nomothetic-inductive study
	Idiographic-deductive study
	Structured professional judgement
	Forensic criminology as a research problem
	Using theory to develop research questions or vice versa?
	Narrowing the research questions
	Conclusion
	References
PART II: Developing imaginative methods
Chapter 5: Studying the marginalized with mixed methods
	Introduction
	Mixing methods: ethno-mimesis and constellational thinking
	The asylum–migration nexus: women’s lives, well-being and community in criminological research
	Women, well-being and social justice: mixing methods in criminological research
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: The ‘typical victim’: no story to tell and no one to tell it to
	Introduction
	Biography, deviance and marginality
	A view of mainstream/empirical victimology
	Hegemonic masculinity, violence and victimization
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 7: Doing visual criminology: learning from documentary, journalism and sociology
	Introduction
	Documentary photography
	Photojournalism
	Visual sociology
	Doing visual criminology
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Liquid crime history: digital entrepreneurs and the industrial production of ‘ruined lives’
	Introduction
	Ruin lust
	‘Ruined’ people
	The New Romantics
	How do crime historians repair lives?
	Ruin-fatigue
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
PART III: The craft and challenges of imaginative liquid criminology
Chapter 9: ‘Risky’ research and discretion in pursuing the criminological imagination
	Introduction
	Ethical caution and the institution
	Discretion in risky research
	Engaging with and managing potential harms
	Are you a police officer? Have you done sex work?
	Conclusion: negotiating restrictions to innovative research
	References
Chapter 10: Gaining access and managing gatekeepers: undertaking criminological research with those ‘within’ the system
	Introduction
	Gaining access
	Managing gatekeepers
	The research benefits of engaging with the gatekeepers of criminal justice
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: The politics of doing imaginative criminological research
	Introduction
	Deviance theorists and the politics of research
	Feminist criminologies and the politics of research
	Critical criminologies and the politics of research
	Southern criminology and the politics of research
	Doing imaginative criminological research using online methodologies
	Imaginative criminological research, new technologies and cyber-methods
	Conclusion: the politics of the criminological imagination
	Note
	References
Conclusion: revisiting ‘liquid criminology’ – politics, poetics, pitfalls and promises
	Introduction
	The politics of ‘liquid criminology’
	The poetics of ‘liquid criminology’
	The pitfalls and promises of ‘liquid criminology’
	Conclusion
	References
Postscript: under the slab
	Introduction
	Unstable circumstances
	Slabs and foundations
	Under the slab, the beach
	References
Index