ABSTRACT

Alternative Criminologies celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines 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|197 pages

Theoretical perspectives

chapter 1|14 pages

Alternative criminologies

An introduction

chapter 3|17 pages

Criminologies of the market

chapter 6|18 pages

Criminology and consumerism

chapter 7|15 pages

Feminist criminologies

chapter 8|10 pages

Queering criminology

chapter 9|15 pages

The politics of sexuality

Alternative visions of sex and social change

chapter 11|17 pages

Green criminologies

chapter 12|16 pages

Cyber-criminologies

part II|273 pages

Critical issues for the 21st century

chapter 13|18 pages

Crime and media

chapter 14|16 pages

Crime and risk

chapter 16|16 pages

Hate crimes

chapter 17|15 pages

Criminology and terrorism

Toward a critical approach

chapter 18|19 pages

Violence against women

chapter 19|28 pages

Atrocity

The Latin American experience

chapter 21|18 pages

The challenge of state crime

chapter 22|22 pages

Mass incarceration

chapter 24|23 pages

Towards the global elimination of the death penalty

A cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment

chapter 25|10 pages

Peculiar institution

America’s death penalty today

chapter 26|19 pages

Desistance

Envisioning futures