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Ghost criminology : the afterlife of crime and punishment / edited by Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, and Travis Linnemann. - New York : New York University Press, ©2022. - 1 online resource, viii, 356 pages : illustrations - Alternative criminology series, v. 29, v.29 .

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide

Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, and Travis Linnemann

PART I APPARITIONS AND THE (IN)VISIBLE

1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic

Sensibility

Eamonn Carrabine

2. Ghost Method

Jeff Ferrell

3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead

Body of US Racialized Politics

Michelle Brown

4. From Optograms to X-Rays: How to Conjure a Spectral

Criminological Image

Michael Fiddler

PART II. THE NECROTIC AND (IN)CORPOREAL

5. (Dis) Posing of "Toxic Necro-Waste": Managing Unwanted Ghosts

Daniel Robins

6. Destroyed Records

Katherine Biber

7. Police: The Weird and Eerie

Travis Linnemann and Justin Turner

8. "Dripping from Head to Toe with Blood": Suffocation, Tentacles,

Police, and Capital

Bill McClanahan

PART III. DEAD AND HAUNTED SPACES

9. The Time of Ghosts: Sites of Violence, Environments of Memory

Alison Young

10. Dark Diffractions: A Performative Hauntology of 10 Rillington

Place

Elaine Campbell

11. Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Cheap Motel Rooms and

Transgression

Carolyn McKay

12. Excavating Ghosts: Urban Exploration as Graffiti Archaeology

Theo Kindynis

Ghost Criminology: A Requiem

Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis, and Travis Linnemann

About the Contributors

About the Editors

Index

The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spacesFrom Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or "haunted," in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology. Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, NC, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary traces of crime in motel rooms. Ultimately, Fiddler, Kindynis, and Linnemann offer ghost criminology as another way of seeing, and better understanding, the lingering impact of violence, oppression, and history in today's world. Ghost Criminology curates cutting-edge research to break exciting new terrain

ISBN: 9781479848935

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Crime -- Sociological aspects.

Dewey Class. No.: 364.9 / G427 2022