Alternative Criminologies

Cover — Half Title — Endorsement — Title Page — Copyright Page — Table of contents — Figures — Tables — Contributors — Preface — Acknowledgements — Part I Theoretical perspectives — 1 Alternative criminologies: An introduction — Critical alternative criminologies with and without Marx 1973-2015 — Alternative criminologies as constant critique and new ways of knowing — The significance of alternative criminologies today — References — 2 Cultural criminology continued — Emergence of cultural criminology — Late modernity and its discontents — A cultural criminology of and for late modernity — The immediacy of illicit identity and transgression — The pervasiveness of power, control and resistance — The spiralling energy of image and representation — To be continued … — Notes — References — 3 Criminologies of the market — Origins — Contemporary developments — Varieties of evidence — Looking to the future — References — 4 Punishment and political economy — The foundations of the political economy of punishment — The prison and the factory: punishment as class control — The limits of the ‘old’ political economy of punishment — New directions in the political economy of punishment — Acknowledgment — Notes — References — 5 Governing through crime — Introduction — Thinking about crime and government — The American ‘war on crime’ and its consequences — The rise of the prosecutor politician — A peculiar institution — The attorney general and the war on crime — The death penalty and governors — Fearing crime and making law — A history of the idealized citizen subject — The rise of the crime victim — Judgment and distrust in the war on crime — Race, the war on crime, and mass imprisonment — Governing social institutions through crime — The family — Safe schools — The workplace — Conclusion — Notes