Alternative Criminologies

Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. Itexamines complex and global crime issues in light of the many alternative scientific, artistic, empathetic, campaigning and otherwise imaginative criminologies that attempt to understand and/or fundamentally change why crime and justice take the forms they do.

From cutting edge topics such as crimes against humanity, the criminology of mobility, terrorism, cybercrime, corporate crime and green criminology; to gendered perspectives on violence against women, sexualities and feminist and queer criminologies; to key issues in penology such as mass incarceration, the death penalty, desistance from crime, risk and the political economy of punishment; Alternative Criminologies demonstrates the breadth, the variety and the vibrancy of contemporary perspectives on crime, criminalization and punishment.

Bringing together 34 leading experts from around the world, this international collection unites fresh and insightful theoretical positions with innovative empirical research and marks an important juncture for criminologies and their imagined futures. Alternative Criminologies is essential reading for students of crime and criminal justice.

Part I: Theoretical perspectives 1. Alternative criminologies: an introduction, Pat Carlen 2. Cultural criminologies continued, Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward 3. Criminologies of the market, Elliott Currie 4. Punishment and political economy, Allessandro De Giorgi 5. Governing through crime, Jonathon Simon and Giane Silvestre 6. Criminology and consumerism, Simon Winlow and Steve Hall 7. Feminist criminologies, Kerry Carrington 8. Queer criminology, Clara Moura Masiero 9. The politics of sexuality: alternative visions of sex and social change, Jo Phoenix 10. The criminology of mobility, Sharon Pickering, Mary Bosworth, and Katja Franko 11. Green criminologies, Reece Walters 12. Cyber-criminologies, Leandro Ayres FrançaPart II: Critical issues for the 21st century 13. Crime and media, Eamonn Carrabine 14. Crime and risk, Pat O’Malley 15. The criminal pursuit of serious white-collar crimes, Michael Levi 16. Hate crimes, Stevie-Jade Hardy and Neil Chakraborti 17. Criminology and terrorism: toward a critical approach, Gabe Mythen 18. Violence against women, Nicole Westmarland 19. Atrocity: the Latin American experience, Susanne Karstedt 20. Crimes against humanity and war crimes, Josė Carlos Portella Jr 21. The challenge of state crime, Penny Green 22. Mass incarceration, David Brown 23. Prisoner reentry as myth and ceremony, Loїc Wacquant 24. Towards the global elimination of the death penalty: a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle 25. Peculiar institution: America’s death penalty today, David Garland 26. Desistance: envisioning futures, Hannah Graham and Fergus McNeill 27. Alternative criminologies, corporatism and academic markets, Pat Carlen and Jo Phoenix

Pat Carlen is Visiting Professor at the Open University, UK and has published over 20 books on criminal and social justice. Co-founder (with Chris Tchaikovsky) of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Criminology 2006–2013, she has also been a recipient of: the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin-Glueck Prize for Outstanding International Contributions to Criminology, the British Society of Criminology’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University.

Leandro Ayres França works as a professor, researcher, writer and translator. He is Professor of Criminology, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Faculdade Estácio Rio Grande do Sul; Coordinator of Estácio’s Criminology Graduation Program; Doctor and Master in Criminal Sciences by Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul’s (PUCRS) Criminal Sciences Graduation Program. He is coordinator of the Contemporaneous Criminologies Study Group, member of the research group Modern Trends in Criminal System and host of the radio program Café e Fúria.