Recent years have seen increasing interest in, and scholarly discussion of, historical
criminology. Yet there remains at present no clear, settled view as to what historical …

Drawing upon recent criminological scholarship examining spectrality, as well as Jacques
Derrida's notion of hauntology, this article sets out a framework to explore harms …

Drawing from ethnographic data, this article examines parole personnel's imaginaries of
dangerous sex offenders: individuals perceived as especially aberrant, predatory and …

More than mere entertainment, video games can be studied as cultural texts, relevant for the
interpretation and understanding of the public imaginary relating to crime. Drawing on ideas …

This paper explores the relevance of a ghost methodology for surveillance studies.
Following Torin Monahan's (2021) call to unsettle transparency as a metric or goal of …

This chapter begins by reminding readers how green cultural criminology—a cross-
fertilisation of green criminology and cultural criminology—has attempted to:(1) examine the …

Historical criminology, developing over the last few decades as a defined field of inquiry, has
had a recent renaissance, resulting in the publication of leading texts, edited collections and …

In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales
have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they …

By exploring the hauntological dimensions of fear of crime, this article proposes that this
phenomenon exists as an ontological absence that manifests through the spectacle of …

Using the spectral as a conceptual metaphor, we explore narratives within Sweden's welfare
institutions and policy discourses surrounding vulnerable EU citizens. We aim to provide a …