Imaginative criminology : of spaces past, present and future / Lizzie Seal and Maggie O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seal, Lizzie, 1977- author.

O'Neill, Maggie, author.

Series:

New horizons in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Physical Description:

vii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, engaging with critically important contemporary issues such as confinement, immigration and border politics. It focuses on how spaces of transgression are lived, portrayed and imagined, looking at spaces of control, including prison and borders, and spaces of resistance.

Contents:

1 Imaginative Criminologies of Space: the Spaces of Imaginative Criminology p. 1

2 Historical Spaces of Confinement 1: Homes for Indigenous Children in Australia p. 21

3 Historical Spaces of Confinement 2: Magdalene Laundries p. 37

4 Creative Writing and the imagined Spaces of Imprisonment p. 55

5 Border Spaces and Places: the Age of the Camps p. 73

6 Imagining Spaces of Violence and Transgression in Vancouver and Northern Ireland p. 93

7 Imagining Dystopian Futures in Young Adult Fiction p. 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

152920268X

9781529202687

OCLC:

1090166497