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    An Introduction for Criminologists

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
    In response to the recent ‘spectral turn’ within criminology this book presents, for the first time, a concise, comprehensive, approachable and critically engaged guide to hauntology for criminological researchers and graduate students.Hauntology is, in essence, a mode of analysing the repressions, absences and lacks that shape our social world. The book outlines how criminological researchers may ... Read more

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  • Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

    Series series International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation
    This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, highlighting how normative societal expectations cause harms on desistance journeys. Through this lens, the book uncovers tensions between desistance as a journey towards societal (re)integration and ... Read more

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    Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

    Series series Emerald Studies in Culture, Criminal Justice and The Arts
    Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations.Unveiling the layers of editing that position prison autobiographies between ... Read more

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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