Ghost Criminology : : The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment / / ed. by Travis Linnemann, Michael Fiddler, Theo Kindynis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Biber, Katherine,; Brown, Michelle,; Campbell, Elaine,; Carrabine, Eamonn,; Ferrell, Jeff,; Fiddler, Michael,; Kindynis, Theo,; Linnemann, Travis,; McClanahan, Bill,; McKay, Carolyn,; Robins, Daniel,; Turner, Justin,; Young, Alison,
• HerausgeberIn: Fiddler, Michael,; Kindynis, Theo,; Linnemann, Travis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Alternative Criminology ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 22 b/w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Ghost Criminology: A (Spirit) Guide -- Part I. Apparitions and the (In)visible -- 1. After the Fact: Spectral Evidence, Cultural Haunting, and Gothic Sensibility -- 2. Ghost Method -- 3. The Specter of White Supremacy: Fugitive Justice and the Dead Body of US Racialized Politics -- 4. From Optograms to X-Rays: How to Conjure a Spectral Criminological Image -- Part II. The Necrotic and (In)corporeal -- 5. (Dis)Posing of “Toxic Necro-Waste”: Managing Unwanted Ghosts -- 6. Destroyed Records -- 7. Police: The Weird and Eerie -- 8. “Dripping from Head to Toe with Blood”: Suffocation, Tentacles, Police, and Capital -- Part III. Dead and Haunted Spaces -- 9. The Time of Ghosts: Sites of Violence, Environments of Memory -- 10. Dark Diffractions: A Performative Hauntology of 10 Rillington Place -- 11. Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? Cheap Motel Rooms and Transgression -- 12. Excavating Ghosts: Urban Exploration as Graffiti Archaeology -- Ghost Criminology: A Requiem -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index