2nd Edition

Alternative Criminologies

Edited By Pat Carlen, Leandro Ayres França Copyright 2027
626 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

626 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book 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... Read more

PART I: Theoretical perspectives

1. Alternative criminologies: an introduction
Pat Carlen

2. Cultural criminology continued
Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward

3. Criminologies of the market
Elliott Currie and Kyle Winnen

4. Punishment and political economy
Alessandro De Giorgi

5. Governing through crime
Jonathan Simon and Giane Silvestre

6. Criminology and consumerism
Simon Winlow and Steve Hall

7. Feminist Criminologies
Kerry Carrington

8. Queer Criminologies
Clara Moura Masiero and Daniel Boianovsky Kveller

9. The Politics of Sexuality: Alternative visions of sex and social change
Jo Phoenix

10. Southern & Decolonial Criminologies
Omar Phoenix Khan

11. The Criminology of Mobility
Sharon Pickering, Mary Bosworth, and Katja Franko

12. Green Criminologies
Reece Walters

13. Criminology and Cyber Technologies
Leandro Ayres França

PART II: Critical issues for the 21st century

14. Crime And Media
Eamonn Carrabine

15. Crime, Risk and Algorithms
Pat O’Malley

16. The Criminal Pursuit of Serious White-Collar Crimes
Michael Levi

17. Hate Crimes
Neil Chakraborti and Emily Wertans

18. Criminology and Terrorism: Toward a critical approach
Gabe Mythen

19. Violence Against Women
Nicole Westmarland

20. Atrocity: The Latin American experience
Susanne Karstedt

21. Criminology And Criminal Justice in the New World of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković and Marijana Kotlaja

22. Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes
José Carlos Portella Junior

23. The Challenge of State Crime
Penny Green

24. Mass Incarceration
David Brown

25. Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony
Loïc Wacquant

26. Towards The Global Elimination of the Death Penalty: A Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment
Carolyn Hoyle and Roger Hood

27. Peculiar Institution: America’s death penalty today
David Garland

28. Desistance: Envisioning futures
Hannah Graham and Fergus McNeill

29. Alternative Criminologies, Academic Markets and Corporatism in Universities
Pat Carlen and Jo Phoenix

Biography

Pat Carlen has published over 20 books on criminal and social justice. Co- founder (with Chris Tchaikovsky) of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and Editor- in- Chief of the British Journal of Criminology 2006– 2013, she has been a recipient of: the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin- Glueck Prize for Outstanding International Contributions to Criminology, the British Society of Criminology’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University.

Leandro Ayres França is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Reading. In Brazil, he worked for over a decade as a criminal lawyer and later as a Penal Police Officer in Rio Grande do Sul, serving as a legal adviser to the Superintendent’s Cabinet and as a trainer at the Penitentiary Services School; he has taught at Faculdade Estácio (Porto Alegre), the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), and the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC). Since 2016, he has coordinated GECC/CRIMLAB. Leandro is the co-author of the award-winning As Marcas do Cárcere (2016), with Alysson Ramos Artuso and Alfredo Steffen Neto; co-editor of Alternative Criminologies (2017) and Justice Alternatives (2019), with Pat Carlen – both also published in Brazil; and editor of the Atlas do Pensamento Criminológico Brasileiro (2022).